I am editing my form and updating some questions to capture my study objectives but am unable to save, preview and deploy. See the screenshot of the error message [Error deploying]

Hi @femidavid Kindly check on row 23 of your Excel and corrent your relevant logic. [image] Stephane

@femidavid , have you validated your xlsform through this online validator ? It should help you identify the syntax errors present within your xlsform. Fix them and you should be able to deploy your survey project without any issue.

I have followed the steps by downloading Java 8 and installed it. Then I downloaded ODK-Validate-v1.16.0.jar and followed the steps by opening the file and open it. Having clicked on “validate again” severally, the screenshot is displayed [Validate] . What is next?

I am still unable to save, preview form and deploy

You could simply use the online version of the online validator . It does not need any installation.

Used the online validation but still receiving errors. Having uploaded the XLS (Legacy) format, still showing errors. See the screenshot [Error from online validate]

Evidence to show that the file being attached: [File attached]

Please press the Submit and see if you see any error message there.

Having pressed submit, an error is shown: “Error: The survey sheet is either empty or missing important column headers.”

Seems like you don’t have a survey sheet in your xlsform. The survey sheet is one of the mandatory sheet in an xlsform.

I don’t understand a survey sheet (in xlsform)? The original name of my form: AN ASSESSMENT OF WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE (WASH) INTERVENTIONS OF HUMANITARIAN ORGANISATIONS IN THE INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS (IDPs) CAMPS IN BORNO STATE, NIGERIA XLS (Legacy) renamed the file to: acvX9jgcjmRHR…

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Error: Form cannot preview and deploy

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Kal_Lam October 7, 2021, 9:25am 12

Please download your xlsform as outlined in this post:

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