topic Re: Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey

VanessaCampbell2 — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 13:28:43 GMT

I have update my survey by adding a new name to one of my questions.

When I go to (re)Publish the survey, the survey passes the checking feature service - "this survey will be updated without affecting existing data", then I click publish survey

After clicking the publish survey button it prompts the "Updating survey form package" the bar loads blue all cross but the spinning circle just keeps spinning and doesn't load anything. The load time has been going for almost a hour now.

I am using the most up to date Connect 1.9.24.

I have done the normal troubleshooting method close, restart, (re)publish, etc.

My survey is live and in production so this long load time is really affecting my clients out in the field.

I have added/delete a name from this exact survey and never dealt with this issue before.

How can I handle this? I haven't come across this issue on GeoNet, please let me know if this is a known issue.

This is my first post so hopefully this is the right place to post an error/bug

Thanks

Re: Updating survey form package - Indefinite Refresh

JamesTedrick — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 23:35:37 GMT

Hi Vanessa,

It sounds like something got stuck during the upload process. This is often a transient issue; have you tried closing Survey123 Connect, re-opening and attempting to republish?

Re: Updating survey form package - Indefinite Refresh

VanessaCampbell2 — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 03:53:09 GMT

Hi James,

The overwrite seems minimal so I am not sure why it's lagging/freezing.

So far I have closed Survey123 Connect, re-opened and tried to republish, removed all components of Survey123 Connect, re-installed and tried republishing still receiving the same results.

My next plan of action is just replicating the survey and publishing it new. If this works the issue may have to do with the overwrite, I'm unsure what the next step would be after that.....

Re: Updating survey form package - Indefinite Refresh

DerekLaw — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 19:25:03 GMT

Hi Vanessa,

Got your XLSForm and performed some testing following your steps (e.g., removed one user from the choice list and added a new one) and I was not able to repro your issue. Tested with Survey123 Connect v1.9.24.

Hope this helps,

Re: Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey

VanessaCampbell2 — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 12:27:38 GMT

I am still having the issue with the overwrite/republish.

For a temp solution I have created a new survey with the value changes. The survey is being used by a lot of contractors, so name changes can happen often.

My one thought on why the I can not republish my survey is that it is live in Prod and downloaded on users mobile device, since its being actively used the overwrite/republish fails.

Re: Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey

AmyKnight — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:57:10 GMT

I also had this problem. I finally realized I had moved the form from its default 'survey' folder in AGOL to another folder. When I put it into its respective survey folder, the overwrite worked fine. This is what happened: I did not notice the survey folders that were auto-created because they were out of sight, i.e. below the other folders, in my folder list. But the form still showed up in the root directory so I moved it to an existing project folder. It's confusing that the form shows up in the root and the survey subfolder. I re-tested to make sure.

Re: Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey

VishApte — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 03:12:27 GMT

I am having this issue on and off. I could not find an exact reason but works if I use "create new survey" in the hamburger menu of the problematic survey and then publish the survey. Something is not quite right with overwrite existing survey. It would be nice if Connect could tell us what step it got stuck at.

Cheers,

Vish

Re: Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey

ArshaYuditha_Amiranti — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 11:04:52 GMT

Hi Vanessa,

What is the workaround of this case? Have you found it? Or by the recent version of Survey123 this issue have been solved?

Cheers,

Arsha

Re: Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey

HeikoKling1 — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 14:33:10 GMT

Same problem here. Maybe the trouble started when I removed the survey from the mobile decide instead of overwriting it with the new form. Thereby the form folder was probably deleted and the App couldn't find the target.

I ended up creating a new form and copy/pasting the definitions across in Excel. Took only 2 minutes. Afterwards I deleted the old version from the desktop application and published the new form to the mobile device.

Initially I had tried to log off from the web-portal and the desktop app in order to release any locks - but without any luck.

Regards, Heiko

Re: Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey

JamesTedrick — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:39:44 GMT

Hi Arsha,

A quick question- can you go to the Survey folder in the 'My Content' section of ArcGIS Online? If you see hosted views, that may interfere with re-publishing of the survey.

Re: Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey

JamesTedrick — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:39:57 GMT

Hi Heiko,

A quick question- can you go to the Survey folder in the 'My Content' section of ArcGIS Online? If you see hosted views, that may interfere with re-publishing of the survey.

Re: Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey

Jean-YvesLandry1 — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 01:17:37 GMT

Having the same problem. This is a survey that was published in November and wanted to add some choices and external choices. I don't have any associated views.

Re: Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey

PaulCone2 — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 21:39:48 GMT

I had this problem with a hang at the same place. The survey points to an existing feature service and I didn't want to republish it so I renamed my survey folder and then created a new one from the .xls and it worked.

Re: Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey

ShelbySouthworth1 — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 20:25:38 GMT

I am also experiencing this behavior - is there a particular reason why there's been a reprise in the issue in the past couple days? Is there a solution yet?
JTedrick-esristaff

Re: Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey

JamesTedrick — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 20:06:53 GMT

Hi Shelby,

The hanging symptom can be caused by a number of disparate reasons - it essentially means that an error occurred that was not handled properly. Can you provide a description of when in the publishing sequence the hanging is occurring?

Re: Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey

ShelbySouthworth1 — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:06:54 GMT

Hi James -

I was experiencing this behavior after running into a similar need to Jean-Yves Landry‌ above. We had a domain with 6 operators and needed to add another handful so I republished my feature service to hold the new names in a domain, and then went back and made sure my new domain matched the "choices" list in Survey123 Connect. This was after trying to do the same by adding them to the feature service through the admin Service URL. At the time of the problem, there were no hosted views in the folder. The update from Survey123 Connect would show as "successful" but nothing would change when it was opened in the App (I tested this by changing the order of fields in the Survey and they did not update; I made sure to remove the Survey, re-download, and Refreshing the Inbox too).

I couldn't wait to figure out what was going wrong with the original Survey so after a certain point I downloaded it and re-created everything - got it working after a few hours. As this user notes (and I identify with), "Several of these issues are recognized in other posts ... but it is only after I run into a problem and have tried to extensively troubleshoot, do I find an answer like "oh we know about that and it doesn't work yet". Definitely had a lot of run ins with different issues through-out this process that I will try to document at some point in the future.

One thing I have had some hang-ups with for sure was in the process of creating the unique URL to pull data from Collector into Survey123 - I made a couple billing fields 'readonly' in Connect at one point, and this prevented the URL from properly pulling them into Survey123. When I attempted to update this attribute and republish it without, the problem persisted

Re: Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey

JamesTedrick — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 17:30:18 GMT

Hi Shelby,

From your description, the republishing process you did should have updated the survey; without having access to the form, feature service or interactively troubleshooting, it is difficult to diagnose why the update process did not work. Certainly, deleting with and redownloading the form should have presented you with the updated form. This also sounds different from the issue you mentioned above, where Survey123 Connect hangs during the publishing process.

I'd be happy to follow up with the experiences/issues you want to document - please feel free to e-mail me directly at jtedrick At Esri.com so that we can schedule a time to talk.

On the read only fields getting populated - we corrected that behavior with Survey123 2.5; is it still persisting?

Re: Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey

JoshuaChan2 — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 03:36:02 GMT

I'm having the same problem. Similar to someone else on this thread, I also moved the form out of the "Survey" folder and into a project folder. I moved it back. The feature class seemed to have published OK but the form didn't. Just the infinite spinning wheel... Any updates? Has this been fixed? I love Survey123 but I'm not loving these weird behaviours it exhibits. Becoming very frustrating when rolling out something to a large group of users.

Re: Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey

ShelbySouthworth1 — Tue, 01 May 2018 20:20:56 GMT

It was hanging during the publishing process ... the only difference being that I wasn't getting an infinitely spinning wheel or loading bar to tell me something was going wrong. I guess my definition of "hanging" is a little different. In that while Survey123 Connect was telling me it had gone through successfully, the update that was apparently successful seemed to be "hanging" somewhere between Survey123 Connect and Survey123 on the web, which I determined based on what my apps were not doing that they would have been working if that update had actually gone through successfully.

I sent you a couple of emails yesterday but I think I've come as close to a complete solution that I'm going to get with this current version of Survey123. Next time I have one of these Apps seriously fail I will leave it unpublished, but in my Account, so the ESRI techs can pull it apart. I just have two short follow up questions based on my findings that I will send you via email momentarily (if you wouldn't mind answering those eventually/ when you get a chance).

Re: Unable to Republish/Overwrite Survey

JoshuaChan2 — Wed, 02 May 2018 15:31:47 GMT

Hi Shelby

I haven’t received any emails from you before this one – so if there were any others please send my way.

It would be great to have better documentation on what is and what isn’t allowed when republishing surveys. I find the existing document<https://doc.arcgis.com/en/survey123/desktop/create-surveys/publishsurvey.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_97A01E11C37D401EB95C7D22EF251F66> on this to be flat out wrong or at the very least, misleading.

I ended up giving up and publishing a new survey, recreating my web map, relinking my dashboard, all the while cursing under my breath