# When Previewing survey, is the "submit" button meant to work? **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [August 13, 2021, 1:37am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/when-previewing-survey-is-the-submit-button-meant-to-work/377 "2021-08-13T01:37:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jkaufman](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@jkaufman](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/jkaufman)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 1:37am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/when-previewing-survey-is-the-submit-button-meant-to-work/377/1 "2021-08-13T01:37:46Z")
I’m new to Ethica and playing around with making surveys. When previewing the survey, the “submit” button never seems be be enabled. Is this just a previewing issue? ![Screen Shot 2021-08-13 at 11.36.15 am](https://forum.ethicadata.com/uploads/default/original/1X/f83e8e07262cc2bdb804b6d2218e12e937f1631d.png) ---
**Author:** ![alireza](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@alireza](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/alireza)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 11:24am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/when-previewing-survey-is-the-submit-button-meant-to-work/377/2 "2021-08-13T11:24:11Z")
Hi @jkaufman The **Submit** button in preview mode is disabled on purpose. The survey submission procedure consists of sending the participant survey responses to the server and then closing the survey. As we have no real participant here, the submit is disabled, but when the participant opens the survey in our apps, the submit button will work as expected and be enabled when the participant answers the question. It’s just a preview mode for researchers to test how the survey flow works based on the criteria and skip patterns, so no need to have **submit** functionality here. Bests, **Alireza Dabiri Nejad**