Does moving the ownerFolder lose entries?

Question

Does anyone know if I will lose data that staff has collected in the field if I change the folder as suggested? I am thinking that the draft data only lives on the phone, but I really do t want to lose that information! Here is why I ask:

I made the mistake of moving the items to another folder w/o realizing the consequences. Staff started collecting data last week and have several surveys saved in draft on the or phones. If I change the ownerFolder ID to the correct folder in AGO, will staff then be able to send the surveys w/o issue?

I tested changing the folder ID in a dummy survey, but it didn’t seem to work, maybe I’m missing something.
I am also looking at how to recover the draft surveys from the devices just in case.

VanessaSimps · Answer

Good news! Once I adjusted the end users to be in a group that Survey123 could see (it won't see a collaborative group, fyi), I was able to send the surveys that were in the outbox successfully. I was extremely worried that adjusting the group sharing was going to cause the survey to need updating on the device and therefore force staff to lose anything in their Survey's outbox.  We didn't refresh the survey, until the following steps were completed:

* I did do a quick back up of the sqllite database from the iPad using these instructions. I only saved this sqllite database in case the next step failed. It is good to know I can get to the stored data on the mobile device if needed!
* I then attempted to send the surveys in from the outbox. This was was successful, much to my relief!
* Once the data was sent and showing up as record in the Survey, I did an export from s123 to a fgdb to create one more back up of the data, just in case!

Huge relief that everything was transferred off the device successfully, staff had put in 40+ hours of difficult field work to collect the data and I was so worried we were going to lose it all!

I hope these steps are helpful to someone else should they make the same "oops" as I did!

VanessaSimps · Answer

yes, staff is at the Creator Role and User Type. They submitted in our test runs, but that was before I shuffled things around in an effort to be tidy in my content page of AGO. Lesson, don't be tidy.

dougbrowning · Answer

Have they ever been able to submit?  Are your users at least Editor level?  I think they also need to be a Field User type.