topic Re: Error when cloning Survey123 form in ArcGIS API for Python Questions

Error when cloning Survey123 form

HanliePetoors — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 09:38:59 GMT

Hi,

I'm using the process outlined here to try and clone a survey from AGOL to an enterprise portal.

Everything works fine up until the line where I actually clone the items:

# Identify the folder associated with the survey fldr = next((f for f in full_folder if f['id'] == survey_folder), 0) #List all the items within that folder to be cloned later on fldr_items = usr.items(folder=fldr) # Create a new folder with the same name as the source folder to clone the contents to target.content.create_folder(folder=fldr['title']) # Clone items to the new folder cloned_items = target.content.clone_items(items=fldr_items, folder=fldr['title'])

This gives me an error

_ItemCreateException: ('Failed to create Feature Service EIIF Monitoring Tool V6: {\'code\': 500, \'message\': "The submitted field \'creationdate\' is not available in the layer \'0\' of the service \'Hosted/service_3053a\'.", \'details\': []}', <Item title:"service_3053a" type:Feature Layer Collection owner:myusername>)

The source survey has a field called 'CreationDate' that Survey123 added itself. I don't know why the clone method is looking for a field called 'creationdate'.

Does someone know how to resolve this error?

Thanks

Hanlie

Re: Error when cloning Survey123 form

JeffGarcia — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 19:27:17 GMT

_ItemCreateException: ('Failed to create Form GIS Trainings: Failed to update Form GIS Trainings: Resource does not exist or is inaccessible.\n(Error Code: 404)', <Item title:"GIS Trainings" type:Form owner:userAdmin>)

Hi @HanliePetoors, were you ever able to figure this one out? I am seeing a very similar error trying to clone a survey form within my same portal environment. I am using notebook server (10.0 runtime with arcgis version 2.3.0) on enterprise version 11.3.

Re: Error when cloning Survey123 form

HanliePetoors — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 06:20:46 GMT

@JeffGarcia unfortunately not.

To be honest, I have never been able to get the clone_items method to work for anything. Just the other day I wanted to clone a feature service from one AGOL organisation to another and it failed once more.

Good luck

Hanlie