Hi! Recently when I edit a response to remove pictures uploaded by the surveyor and then submit the edited form, the previous questions which were previously filled, especially ’Select One’ questions responses get deleted along with it and thus it keeps going back to previous questions whenever I try to submit the edited form until I fill them. Can someone help with this issue?
Have you added, removed or changed any of the questions in your form definition since these previous submissions were sent up?
Editing a form (in Enketo web browser) will basically load the latest version of your form and populate it with whatever the old raw submission data has. So, for example, if you have introduced new required questions into your form in the interim, these will now have to be filled in before you can save the edit.
Similarly, if you have changed any of your select questions - for example changed the choice name value from ‘1’ to ‘y’ - this may also cause issues like you observe; eg the (old) data had ‘1’ as the response value, but ‘1’ is no longer a recognized choice response in the new form version because “Yes” now maps to ‘y’.
I hadn’t changed the question which is getting this error, and this was a select one type of question as well. I had added another question in the form which is coming blank from the beginning when I open the form to edit as well, but the other questions which have remained untouched are getting cleared when I try to submit the form after editing the submission (only removing the picture uploaded at the very end).
Are you able to share the new version of he form (and, preferably, the old one too for reference)? Without seeing the form logic it’s hard to tell what may be causing some of the question responses to be blanked upon edit and re-submission.
Sure, I am attaching the old original questionnaire and the new edited version below in xlsx format for your reference. Please let me know if anything else is required from my part. Thank you so much for helping!!
New Edited Site Screening Questionnaire Phase I (4).xlsx (79.6 KB)
Original Site Screening Phase I Kobo Questionnaire (2).xlsx (87.2 KB)
