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I would like some help with a form that is throwing this error:

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I’m not sure what this means. For context, I’ve tried the below but haven’t been able to get it to work:

  • The English language translation only had label instead of label::English. I changed this on both the choices and survey worksheets. Also noticed that the Hint had a French translation but did not have English indicated for the column that had English. I changed this as well.
  • I removed all columns that had headers but no data on them from the external CSV files attached to the form.
  • I removed the list_name column from the external CSV files
  • I also checked the name column on the survey and choices worksheets for any special characters. It seems there were none.

Kindly assist

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Welcome to the community @eonyango21,

Do you have autocomplete written in your appearance column with select_one_from_file type question?

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Thanks @hakan_cetinkaya. Not at all. Not using autocomplete.

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Did you check your form with the Online validator? This is always recommended during development and before deployment, please.

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Yes I did. There were no errors @wroos

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@eonyango21, maybe you can share your CSV file with the community. I assume there should be some formatting issue in your CSV file.

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@Kal_Lam , I’m not sure how I can do that since it says I’m a new user and I cannot upload attachments because of that.

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@eonyango21, you should now be able to. Would you mind giving another try?

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Thanks @Kal_Lam. Please find attached
rw_sp02_request_v1.xls.xlsx (26.9 KB)

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These are the associated CSV files
Admin2CD.csv (798 Bytes)
Admin3CD.csv (10.6 KB)
Admin4CD.csv (8.9 KB)
Admin5CD.csv (38 Bytes)
sp_register.csv (3.9 KB)

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@eonyango21
There was an important warning from the Online validator. You should you add the language codes, please. See cited link.

The following language declarations do not contain valid machine-readable codes: French, English. Learn more: http://xlsform.org#multiple-language-support

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Tried this but didn’t work as well

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Seems I figured it out:

  • The choice_filter for the sp_id_auto field would require you to add something to ensure that the form can run. I added First_Name=foo to this.
  • The pulldata() functions that read from sp_register e.g pulldata('sp_register', 'Family_Name', 'name', ${sp_id}) refer to name a column that does not exist in sp_register.csv . This doesn’t necessarily prevent the form from running though. The first bullet explains why there was an issue running the form.
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Perhaps, you may also try true() to satisfy the choice_filter.

Would you mind, please to share the updated form with the community, as the example could help others too?

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Sure. Find attached
rw_sp02_request_v2.xlsx (175.7 KB)

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