In short, how to update a form (redeploy) without losing data?

[Kal_Lam]

Hi @gloriadeik,

Welcome to the community! Maybe this post discussed previously should help you solve your issue:

Does updating and redeploying a survey project during an ongoing data collection affect the dataset?

Hi @wroos I do hope you are keeping safe. Let me respond to each issue and @Kal_Lam can chime in. On export your data will be defined based on the latest form definition. Please note, you can get previous data downloaded as you may already know however, the format of columns will be determined by the latest version of the form. Changes on the data type affect the export such that the predominant definition takes defines the export definition e.g. when text data exists in a date column for e…

Have a great day!