One of my favorite list templates in SharePoint is the Survey template. It’s a fun and useful feature that helps you on achieving good survey-like forms with charts and insights. You can make them anonymous, do some customizations and add Branching Logic, which means conditional questions depending on what the user answers. But unfortunatelly there are some drawbacks like the message you receive of You are not allowed to respond again to this survey in SharePoint.

You are not allowed to respond again to this survey in SharePoint - Form example
Form example
You are not allowed to respond again to this survey in SharePoint - Survey overview
Survey overview

But it has one main behaviour that I just don’t like, that is the message when you try to answer the survey again. Below you can check the message with Custom Errors disabled.

You are not allowed to respond again to this survey in SharePoint - Error message
Error message

Theorically, the user has the required permission to edit its answers. But unfortunatelly once I try to answer again, SharePoint shows me that message as an error. This is a huge problem for users that don’t understand this message and it can be negative to the system.

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