# Archived Respondents

## 📚 What are archived respondents ?

Archiving of respondent allows you to send a respondent into the archive. The main advantage of archiving respondent is that these respondents are not anymore taken into account by [security items](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/form-management/security/security-items). As such we can re-allow respondents to fill the form even if the security items don't allow multiple submissions. \
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This can be particularly handy if we wanted for example to create a [campaign ](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/form-management/campaigns)in June and send our survey to [panel members](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/form-management/campaigns/campaign/panels) and then re-send a campaign later on in December to same panel members. 

In such a case we could archive the June responses just before starting the December campaign to re-allow the [panel members](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/panels/panelists) to re-take our survey a second time effectively allowing us to record multiple answers from the same group of people over time and generate [reports ](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/form-management/reports)series of different date ranges.

## 🚀 Archiving respondents 

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To archive respondents you may select the respondent and click on the **Archive** button.