Reset test data

You can clear individual records in your survey data store by tagging them as “test”. This is useful for resetting test completes or for general data cleaning purposes. Test records are excluded from all statistics and other HumanListening applications.

Export limitation

All records tagged as “test” are currently not available for data export.

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Delete test data

You can’t delete survey records in HumanListening. Instead, convert records to “test” so they’re excluded from all statistics and analysis.

Prefer to work in the data itself?

You can also switch selected responses between Live and Test straight from the survey’s data store in Data Wrangler. See Survey data stores.

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Reset test data

To reset test data, you’ll first need to obtain a list of all SurveyEntryIDs for the records you want to reset. This information is available in the data export.

Once you have the list of SurveyEntryIDs:

1. Open Survey Shaper
2. In the content table, click the more icon (⋮) on the survey and select Monitor Responses > Test Entry
3. Paste the SurveyEntryIDs into the Survey Entry IDs box. Place each on a separate row. You can drag the handle at the bottom right corner of the box to resize it if needed.
4. Check the Reset Survey Quota box to remove the test entries from the quota counts. When you check it, a Schedule start date field appears. Enter the date and time the quota counts should be recalculated from, for example the date fieldwork started. Use your local time, unless the project is on the US server, in which case use UTC.
5. Check the Reset Survey Statistics box to remove the test entries from the statistics
6. Click CONVERT TO TEST

Change test records back to live

If you’ve converted records to test by mistake, follow the same steps but click CONVERT TO LIVE instead.

Records still showing?

Once records have been converted to test, they may still be visible in the data store for a short period (approximately 10 minutes) until the data store sync has completed.

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Republish dashboards after removing test data

If you have a Focus Words project connected to the survey data store, you’ll need to republish the dashboard after resetting test data.

For any Dashboard Publisher dashboards connected to the survey data store, there’s no need to republish—the test records will be automatically removed from the dashboard.