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In the event you find you need a survey that has previously been archived, you can restore that survey to your Survey List.
- Go to the Home > Archive menu item.
- Set Archived = "Yes" and click Search.
- Find the survey you wish to restore, and click the Restore link beside its Survey ID.
- Add any comments and click OK.
All archived surveys for which you are the owner are listed.
The Restore Archived Project confirmation dialog appears.
When a survey is restored it will be given the original Survey ID number, the survey link will be the same as it was before the survey was archived, and the "Owner" of the project will be set to the original owner if that user still exists or the restoring user in the event the original owner is no longer registered in the company. The restored survey will have the status Closed, so you must set the survey back to Production mode and re-launch it before it will be accessible to respondents again.
Note: The restore task will only get back the Survey and the survey database. All other objects, such as tasks, data templates, Rapid Result, Reportal reports, data processing rules etc must be re-generated if needed.
Due to the practical challenges involved with testing new versions of Authoring against old surveys, the Project Restore functionality is only supported for surveys that have been launched in one of the latest three versions of Authoring. It will normally be possible to restore older surveys, but Forsta cannot guarantee this.