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Scheduling a Project to Open or Close Automatically

Scheduling lets a project open and close itself so you don’t have to be at your desk. You can combine three automatic triggers:

  • Open automatically — the form starts accepting responses at a date and time you pick
  • Close automatically — the form stops accepting responses at a deadline
  • Close after a number of responses — the form closes once it has collected a maximum number of responses

All times are picked in your local timezone.

Setting a Schedule

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  1. Click Forms in the top navigation to open your Dashboard
  2. Click the project you’d like to schedule — this expands its actions
  3. Select Schedule
  4. Set an open time, a close time, and/or a maximum number of responses
  5. Check the summary at the bottom of the dialog — it spells out exactly what will happen
  6. Click Save schedule

The schedule dialog, showing the automatic open and close pickers and the response limit

You can also open the same dialog from the three-dot menu on a form card, or from the form actions menu in the builder toolbar (Schedule open / close).

Your Dashboard shows a note on any scheduled project — for example “Opens 18 Aug, 9:00 AM” or “Closes at 100 responses” — so you can see upcoming changes at a glance.

Scheduling a Launch

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If you set an opening time on a form that is currently open, the form is closed right away and reopens automatically at the time you picked. The dialog makes this explicit: the summary reads “Closes now · reopens …” and the save button changes to Close now & save.

Until the opening time arrives, anyone visiting the form’s link sees “This form isn’t open yet” along with the opening time shown in their local timezone — useful for announced launches.

You can also schedule a pause window on an open form: set a close time and a later reopen time, and the form stays open, closes at the deadline, and reopens on its own.

How the Triggers Behave

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  • Each trigger fires once and then clears itself. If you manually reopen a form after it auto-closed, it stays open — an old schedule never overrides you.
  • The response limit counts identified (non-anonymous) responses, matching the response count shown on your Dashboard. Respondents who are already part-way through when the form closes can still finish; only new respondents are blocked.
  • Scheduled changes take effect within about a minute of the set time.
  • To remove a trigger, open the Schedule dialog, clear the field, and save.
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