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title: "Schedule Start & End Dates"
description: "Optimize your survey management with custom Start & End Conditions in Formbricks. This feature allows you to control exactly when your survey is available for responses and when it should close, making it ideal for time-sensitive or number-of-response-limited surveys."
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Configure your surveys to open and close based on specific criteria. Here’s how to set up these conditions:

## **Schedule a Survey Release**

- **How to**: Open the Survey Editor, switch to the Settings tab. Scroll down to Response Options, Toggle the “Release Survey on Date”.

![Choose a link survey template](/images/xm-and-surveys/surveys/general-features/schedule-start-end-dates/step-one.webp)

- **Details**: Choose the date and time when the survey should become available to respondents. All times follow UTC timezone.

- **Use Case**: This is useful for launching surveys in alignment with events, product releases, or specific marketing campaigns.

## **Automatically Closing a Survey**

- **How to**: Open the Survey Editor, switch to the Settings tab. Scroll down to Response Options, Toggle the “Close survey on date”.

![Choose a link survey template](/images/xm-and-surveys/surveys/general-features/schedule-start-end-dates/step-three.webp)

- **Details**: Define a specific date and time for the survey to close. This also follows UTC timezone.&#x20;

- **Use Case**: Essential for surveys linked to time-bound events or studies where data collection needs to end
  at a specific point.

### **Summary**

Setting up Start & End Dates in Formbricks allows you to control the availability and duration of your surveys with precision. Whether you are conducting academic research, market analysis, or gathering event feedback, these settings help ensure that your data collection aligns perfectly with your objectives.

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