Dear all, For some inexplicable reason the required field for my groups is no longer working. I have a simple require condition for each of my groups selected(${consent_check},‘yes’) Yet, even though the answer to the question ${consent_check} is ‘yes’, the groups are not appearing. What’s even…

I ended up rebuilding the entire survey row by row. The issue was a lone calculate field. It was an “if” statement that was incorrect. For whatever reason, this caused the issue with the groups and relevants. So, now people know… if you make a mistake in a calculate field, this can be an outcome!

So I appear to have isolated the problem. In one group, I had used nested parentheses in the required field and that seems to break everything. For example: selected(${consent_check},‘yes’) and (selected(${unit_level},‘individual’) or selected(${unit_level},‘household’)) The reason I had used …

Hello, would you mind to try two other syntax versions: Put the whole in an additional ( … ). Put the first condition, i.e. before the and, in an additional bracket. It might be a bug, the core team may say more. You need your brackets as cannot be combined directly with or.

Hi wroos, Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately it doesn’t work. I cannot fathom this problem. In fact, it doesn’t appear to be parentheses at all now, so my earlier conclusion was incorrect. For some reason, after a certain point in the form, if there is any syntax in the required field for …

Thank you @sjed1 for sharing your solution to the entire community and making the community a learning and sharing platform. Expecting the same in the upcoming days too.

Hello, Thanks! Would you mind to add a few details? The wrong syntax of this if. The position of this if towards the group 7. Maybe you could even provide an extract of your form structure here?

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Hi Wroos, Unfortunately I didn’t save a version of the XLS with the offending syntax. I do recall that it was a fairly complex nested IF statement, For whatever reason I made an error that wasn’t picked up by the validation but still broke the survey.

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REQUIRED for groups not working (Enketo)

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