Preview and review

Review surveys before fieldwork

Test the questionnaire safely before real collection begins and leave comments beside the exact elements they refer to. Every plan includes comments in your own preview; Team and Enterprise can also invite colleagues or clients into shared review rounds.

Availability All plans Personal preview comments are available on every plan. Shared rounds and invitations require Team or Enterprise.

Comment on your own preview

All plans Open a survey preview from the admin or ask your connected AI assistant for its review link. Use Survey to test the questionnaire and Comment to select an element and leave feedback. Comments and their badges remain visible in both modes, and test answers never become real responses.

Your AI assistant can read the comments, propose the corresponding edits and create the next version after you have decided the pending feedback.

Try asking your AI

“Show me the review preview for this survey so I can leave comments.”

“Read my open preview comments, propose the changes and ask me to approve or reject each one.”

Share a review round

Team+ Shared rounds let colleagues or clients review the same fixed survey version without needing a Dayalogs account.

Create the round

Open Reviews, give the round a clear name such as “Client sign-off”, and choose how reviewers collaborate.

Prepare the preview

Add test data when the survey uses conditional paths, so reviewers can reach the cases that matter.

Invite reviewers

Add their email addresses and choose whether each person can only comment or can also approve and reject feedback. Each person receives a personal review link.

Try asking your AI

“Create a private review round called Client sign-off and invite anna@example.com and joan@example.com.”

Choose the survey and review languages

The survey content language controls the questionnaire itself. Reviewers can switch between the translations supported by that survey.

The review language controls the review panel, its buttons and messages, and the invitation email. One language applies to the whole round, independently from the survey content language. New rounds default to English.

Changing your Dayalogs profile language or the survey's source language later does not silently change an existing round. Create separate rounds when different reviewer groups need different interface and email languages.

Try asking your AI

“Create an English review round for the Spanish survey and invite anna@example.com.”

Choose how reviewers see each other

Collaborative

Reviewers see each other's comments and can build on the same discussion. This usually works best for an internal team.

Private

Each reviewer sees only their own comments, while the survey owner sees everything. Use this for independent opinions or mixed client and internal reviews.

What reviewers experience

Reviewers walk through the same questions and flow as a respondent, but their test answers do not create real responses. They can comment on the whole survey, a block, a question or a specific option, then mark their review as complete.

Every invited participant may comment while their own review and the round remain open. Decision permissions are separate: they control who can approve or reject feedback, not who can contribute comments.

Finishing commenting is irreversible. Comments are saved as soon as you add them. Finishing does not approve comments or the survey. That identity can no longer add comments, but authorized decision-makers can decide feedback afterwards while the round and version remain current. Other participants can continue.

Comments stay attached to the survey version the reviewer actually saw. Closed and outdated review links remain available as read-only history. Automatic closure when everyone finishes waits until all original comments have a decision.

Review conditional paths with context data

If the survey branches on contact data, link data or URL parameters, set representative context values before inviting anyone. Otherwise reviewers may only see the default path or reach the end without seeing any questions.

Use more than one deliberate test case when a survey has important edge paths. This lets the same round cover, for example, a new customer, a returning customer and someone who is not eligible.

Try asking your AI

“Which test values does this review need to exercise every conditional path?”

“Prepare one test case for a contact under 40 and another for a contact over 40.”

Work through the feedback

Only the original comment needs a decision. Replies stay inside its thread, have no separate status or actions, and reopen an approved or rejected comment when the discussion continues.

  • Open means the comment still needs a decision.
  • Approved means the change has been accepted for the next survey version.
  • Rejected means you deliberately decided not to make the change.
  • Applied is set automatically when Dayalogs creates the new version containing the approved change.

A new version cannot be created while an open round on the current version has undecided original comments. Decide them, or explicitly close an abandoned round. When versioning succeeds, approved comments become applied and the old version's open rounds close.

Your AI assistant can summarize comments, propose edits and prepare decisions, but each approval or rejection requires your explicit confirmation.

Try asking your AI

“Summarize the open review comments and suggest how to resolve each one.”

“Show me the wording change Anna suggested on the satisfaction question and ask before applying it.”

Choose when the round closes

Closing mode
Use it when
Manual
You want to close the discussion yourself.
All reviewed
The round should close after every invited reviewer has marked their review complete.
By date
The review has a fixed deadline.
Date or all reviewed
The first of those conditions should close the round.
Try asking your AI

“Has everyone finished reviewing? If they have, close the round.”