Hi Frank - thanks for your message!
I pulled the following from the Creating a New Survey resource in the tutorials section of the toolkit. In short, if you plan to use a survey for more than one date, be sure to choose multi-day program during survey creation step 2.
The program date should indicate the time period when the program took place and should match that of the program you are surveying. The program date can be a single day or a date range. The program date can also be used when building and viewing reports to sort or filter survey data.
If you choose a single date for a program, you'll need to create a new survey if you want to measure the same program again at a later date. To enter a single date, simply select a program date from the calendar or type it into the field.
If you choose a date range, you can collect and enter results from multiple program dates into one survey dataset. When using a date range, it is easier to review data over a period of weeks, months, quarters, or the entire year. To enter a date range, click multi-day program and then select or type an end date into the field.
The multi-day program choice should also prevent a date from being added to the PDF for the paper survey. Unfortunately, in my testing of copying from a single-date survey, I also could not get the date on the copied survey to change. In this instance, creating a new survey instead of copying another would be best practice.
Please let us know if you have any other questions or if what has been suggested here doesn't seem to be working from your account.
All the best,
Katina
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Katina Jones
PLA Program Manager, Evaluation & Assessment
American Library Association
She/Her/Hers
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