Take completed responses into your analysis workflow.

A completed survey can support several kinds of work. Numeric answers may enter a statistical analysis, written explanations may need close reading, and a report may require an editable document. Lensym provides CSV, Excel, PDF and Word so the output can match that next task.

PDF and Word offer Table and Individual layouts. One brings responses together; the other organises the document around individual submissions. These are presentations of the recorded responses, while the in-app Questions view remains available for question-level summaries and the dataset remains available for further analysis.

Participant text can be interpreted differently by a spreadsheet than by a data-processing script. Lensym makes the export choice explicit. Spreadsheet-safe CSV is the default: it provides readable answers and adds protection to text that could be interpreted as a formula, while plain numeric values remain numeric.

Unchanged research data provides stored values, response metadata and answer timestamps without formula protection. Structured answers appear as JSON within the CSV. This suits programmatic work, but opening the file directly in a spreadsheet can interpret text as formulas. Spreadsheet behaviour varies, so the intended destination matters when choosing the format.

The export dialog defines the download’s scope rather than silently inheriting the analytics sidebar’s filters. It includes completed responses and provides its own completion-date controls. Started, in-progress and abandoned responses are excluded; Preview answers do not create exportable records.

Dates use the timezone displayed in the dialog and include both endpoint days in full, including daylight-saving transitions. A single-day window can therefore be selected as the same From and To date. The response count and download use those same boundaries, giving you a concrete selection to document alongside the file.

An export is the beginning of another workflow, not the end of interpreting the questionnaire. A blank answer can reflect an optional question or a bypassed route. A structured answer may need its components separated for analysis. Individual responses remain useful for checking what a particular record represents.

Both CSV choices leave stored responses unchanged. Keeping an untouched download, recording the extraction settings and checking known answers gives the team a reference before recoding or calculating new variables. Lensym provides the responses and their selected scope; the analysis can then make its transformations explicit.