Survey Permissions - Not allowing submission

Question

I have created a survey that the Sharepoint Admin group can submit without any issues.
Our "normal user" groups are all specifically set to "Contribute" for the survey (have "Read" on the remainder of the site). Using one of the "normal user" logins, the option for "Respond to this Survey" is available, and the users can actually get into and fill in all the fields. However, when clicking "Submit", they get an access denied message.
From what I've been able to find in FAQs, online, etc, it seems the common mistake is putting normal users as "Read" and not "Contribute", but apparently I'm missing something else...any ideas?

Answer 1

Hi,
To submit a survey, the user should have at least the following permissions:
- Add Items
- Edit Items (for Branching Logic in the survey)
- View Items
- View Pages
- Open
If you set “None” under Edit access: Specify which responses users can edit, it would revoke “Edit Items” right for an user which in turn would result into error message.
So please check the following settings:
1.       Open the surveys, click settings-survey settings, click advanced settings,
2.       Make sure Edit Access enable “Only their own” instead of “None”.
3.       Check the effect.
Hope this helps.
Rock Wang
Rock Wang– MSFT