Numio has two non-recording ways to look at a live calculator: a sandbox for clicking through it yourself without saving anything, and a view-only view that replays a specific past response. Neither one records new data. This article explains both.
Sandbox preview
The sandbox lets you interact with your published calculator exactly as a visitor would — enter values, advance through blocks, see results — without any of it being saved as a response.
You reach the sandbox right after publishing: the publish confirmation screen has a View Sandbox button that opens the live version in sandbox mode. See Publish your project.
Use the sandbox to:
- Sanity-check that formulas calculate correctly on the live version.
- Confirm styling, branding, and block order look right.
- Walk a colleague through the experience without polluting your analytics.
Because the sandbox runs against the published version (not your in-editor draft), it reflects what real visitors actually get. Anything you type there is discarded — no response, no lead data, nothing in your reports.
View-only responses
The view-only view shows a single, already-submitted response rendered back through the calculator — the inputs the visitor entered and the results they saw — as a read-only page. It does not let you change inputs or submit, and it never creates a new response.
You open a view-only response from your project's Analytics:
- Go to the project's response table.
- Find the response you want to inspect.
- Click the View response action on that row.
This opens the response on a dedicated read-only route in a new tab. It's the right tool when a respondent asks "what did I get?" or when you're investigating a specific submission — you see exactly their inputs and outputs, frozen.
What gets saved, and when
A response is only recorded when a visitor submits through a real, live link — the General or Embed share links. Sandbox sessions, view-only response pages, and the in-editor preview all explicitly skip saving: no response row and no lead data are written from any of them.
| Mode | Visitor can interact | Saves a response | |---|---|---| | Live share / embed link | Yes | Yes | | Sandbox | Yes | No | | View-only response | No (read-only) | No | | Editor preview | Yes | No |