Error message when trying to deploy form

rachrigby · August 22, 2019, 8:23pm

Hi everyone, I’m trying to deploy my form on Kobo and I get this error message:

There has been a problem trying to replace ${} with the XPath to the survey element named ‘’. There is no survey element with this name.

Is anyone able to help?

Thanks, Rachel

Kal_Lam · August 23, 2019, 1:58am

Hi @rachrigby,

Welcome to the community! Would you mind checking your xlsform with https://opendatakit.org/xlsform/ to identify and correct the existing syntax errors.

rachrigby · August 23, 2019, 8:52am

Hi, it’s not an xlsform - I built the survey from scratch within Kobo. So not sure how to check it against xls?

Kal_Lam · August 23, 2019, 10:03am

Hi @rachrigby,

You could do this by downloading the xlsform from the Form Tab.

wroos · April 29, 2020, 4:32pm

Hello,
you probably have a totally empty ${} syntax at one place.

The problem is also shown in Preview

If i{} is NOT empty, but there is is a wrong reference-name, you will normally another error message:
On Preview

On deplloy

Kind regards