The Date the activity actually happened field appears within a survey by default.

When creating a new survey it is listed on the right in the Your Survey Questions column

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If is a system field on Makerble. You do not need to create it, you simply need to add it to your survey by selecting it from the Public Questions Library.

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Steps

Add the field to an existing survey

1. Select My Apps in the top menu

2. Select Surveys (if you do not have this option, follow these steps to access the survey editor page: Go to the Survey Editor page)

3. Use the Surveys Used By toggle to select a project that the survey appears in

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4. Click the View Questions button

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5. You arrive on the survey’s profile page

6. Click More Options

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7. A dropdown menu appears, select Edit

8. You arrive on the Survey Editor page

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9. Scroll down to the Public Questions Library in the left sidebar

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10. Click the Add button next to Date the activity actually happened to add that field to the Survey

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11. Scroll to the bottom and press Save

12. You arrive back on the survey profile page. That’s it. That field will now be available on all the survey campaigns based on that survey.

13. Now that the Date Happened field has been

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1. added to the survey, you, colleagues, contacts and survey respondents can use it to change the date of a story while creating or editing a story or submitting a survey response: How to backdate a story or survey response

Add the field to a new survey

1. Click Create in the top menu > A dropdown menu appears > Select Show More Options > Select Survey

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2. You arrive on the Survey Editor page

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2. Name the survey

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3. Scroll down to the Public Questions Library in the left sidebar

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4. Click the Add button next to Date the activity actually happened to add

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1. that field to the Survey

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2. Scroll to the bottom and press Save

3. You arrive back on the survey profile page.

4. To use the survey, add it to one or more projects

5. Once the

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1. survey has been added to

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1. a project, you, colleagues, contacts and survey respondents can use it to change the date of a story while creating or editing a story or submitting a survey response:

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1. How to backdate a story or survey response