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Understand restricting a form's availability

Understand restricting a form's availability

You can make your  form  available strictly for a particular duration. You can set your form's access duration is either of the following ways:

  • By setting both the  Start time  and  End time : When a user accesses your form before or after this duration, the form will not load. Instead, the user will see a message, as mentioned below.
  • By setting just the  End time : When a user accesses your form after the end date-time, the form will not load. Instead, the user will see a message, as mentioned below.
You may display the default message ('
Form is closed
'), or customize it. Below is how the message appears on a form:
  • When a user accesses from a web browser:


Things to know

The  Start time  and  End time  refer to the timezone set in your app's settings.

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