--- schema_version: "1" id: d259b04b37f859be6026bd1987cec0adcabb5e883150cefc5558dfe9c81ff691 title: Survey collection: legacydeveloper version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/legacydeveloper/current/en-us/object_reference/sforce_api_objects_survey.md canonical_url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.object_reference.meta/object_reference/sforce_api_objects_survey.htm source_site: developer.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: f2ccd6486236541397b3bd36a41e55f546e20f96e76482cd4b5bfd45b4bacfad description: Represents a survey. --- # Survey Represents a survey. ## Supported Calls describeLayout(), describeSObjects(), getDeleted(), getUpdated(), query(), retrieve(), search() ![Note](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.object_reference.meta/object_reference/images/icon_note.png) #### Note You can’t define custom fields for the Survey object using the Object Manager. ## Fields | Field Name | Details | | --- | --- | | ActiveVersionID | Type reference Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The ID of the survey version currently activated. | | Description | Type string Properties Nillable Description The description of the survey. This field isn’t visible in the UI. | | DeveloperName | Type string Properties Filter, Group, Sort Description The survey’s unique API name. | | IsPartialSaveEnabled | Type boolean Properties Create, Defaulted on create, Filter, Group, Sort Description Indicates whether to save the partial responses for the survey (true) or not (false). The default value is false. | | LastReferencedDate | Type dateTime Properties Filter, Nillable, Sort Description The date and time that the current user last viewed a record related to the survey. | | LastViewedDate | Type dateTime Properties Filter, Nillable, Sort Description The timestamp for when the current user last viewed the survey. | | LatestVersionId | Type reference Properties Filter, Group, Sort Description The ID of the most recent version of this survey. | | Name | Type string Properties Filter, Group, Sort Description The name of the survey that appears in the UI. This field is read-only from API version 50.0. | | NamespacePrefix | Type string Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The namespace prefix that is associated with this object. Each Developer Edition org that creates a managed package has a unique namespace prefix. Limit: 15 characters. You can refer to a component in a managed package by using the namespacePrefix\_\_componentName notation. The namespace prefix can have one of the following values. - In Developer Edition orgs, NamespacePrefix is set to the namespace prefix of the org for all objects that support it, unless an object is in an installed managed package. In that case, the object has the namespace prefix of the installed managed package. This field’s value is the namespace prefix of the Developer Edition org of the package developer. - In orgs that are not Developer Edition orgs, NamespacePrefix is set only for objects that are part of an installed managed package. All other objects have no namespace prefix. | | OwnerId | Type reference Properties Filter, Group, Sort Description The ID of the user who created the survey. | | SurveyType | Type string Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description Type of the survey. The default value is Survey. Possible values are: - ASSESSMENT — Survey type for sales enablement teams. Available from API version 58.0 and later. - BASIC — Survey with a question page with like or dislike, long text, multiple selection, NPS, rating, short text, and single selection questions, and without inserted participant responses, display logic, and page branching logic. - SURVEY — Survey with all the available features. | | TotalVersionsCount | Type int Properties Filter, Group, Nillable, Sort Description The number of versions of the survey. | ## Associated Objects This object has the following associated objects. Unless noted, they are available in the same API version as this object. [SurveyChangeEvent](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.object_reference.meta/object_reference/sforce_api_associated_objects_change_event.htm "A ChangeEvent object is available for each object that supports Change Data Capture. You can subscribe to a stream of change events using Change Data Capture to receive data tied to record changes in Salesforce. Changes include record creation, updates to an existing record, deletion of a record, and undeletion of a record. A change event isn’t a Salesforce object—it doesn’t support CRUD operations or queries. It’s included in the object reference so you can discover which Salesforce objects support change events.") Change events are available for the object. [SurveyFeed](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.object_reference.meta/object_reference/sforce_api_associated_objects_feed.htm "StandardObjectNameFeed is the model for all feed objects associated with standard objects. These objects represent the posts and feed-tracked changes of a standard object.") (API version 42.0) Feed tracking is available for the object. [SurveyOwnerSharingRule](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.object_reference.meta/object_reference/sforce_api_associated_objects_ownersharingrule.htm "StandardObjectNameOwnerSharingRule is the model for all owner sharing rule objects associated with standard objects. These objects represent a rule for sharing a standard object with users other than the owner.") Sharing rules are available for the object. [SurveyShare](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.object_reference.meta/object_reference/sforce_api_associated_objects_share.htm "StandardObjectNameShare is the model for all share objects associated with standard objects. These objects represent a sharing entry on the standard object.") Sharing is available for the object.