Cannot submit form because note is set as mandatory response

[Xiphware]

@Enya

I am facing the exact same issue now, where I have accidentially set a background calculation field as ‘required’ and collected data with the form which cannot be submitted.

Are you using KoboCollect (or equivalently ODK Collect) or Enketo to collect the data?

If former, you may be able to pull the (incomplete) submissions off the phone using Briefcase. Caveat: Briefcase is no longer supported, so YMMV… Failing that, you’d have to get your hands dirty and manually run Android Debug Bridge (adb)  |  Android Studio  |  Android Developers to pull off the raw submission data files off the phone. But at least that will preserve the raw data.

Neither of these are for the faint-of-heart however.