Help with error message: cannot deploy

[Heath]

Can you help me address this error message? I’ve created the questionnaire in Kobo Form. I’ve deleted all “not applicable” responses as a potential solution, but with no luck.

unable to deploy

your form cannot be deployed because it contains errors:

The name column for the ‘ls4gc69’ choice list contains these duplicates: ‘not_applicable’. Duplicate names will be impossible to identify in analysis unless a previous value in a cascading select differentiates them. If this is intentional, you can set the allow_choice_duplicates setting to ‘yes’. Learn more: XLSForm.org.

[Kal_Lam]

@Heath, this post discussed previously should help you solve your issue:

Choice duplicate

Hi @maggib, I found the duplicate that i have highlighted with yellow and marked the font with red within list_name lf3sx85 whose name prefer_not_to_answer is seen repeated twice within list_name lf3sx85. For your ease check row number 89 and 93 under choices tab. [Image 1] The principle behind this is that each list_name should have unique code under it’s associated name. e.g. this is not allowed … list_name name test a test a test a … but this is allowed … list_name na…

In addition, you should also be able to identify syntax issues by validating your XLSForm through this online validator.