topic Re: ISSUE: Report Suddenly Not Generating in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

ISSUE: Report Suddenly Not Generating

cfransen — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:56:29 GMT

Just started getting this error today, even though nothing changed with the feature layer or the survey, won't even generate reports for surveys that had previously worked fine. Has anyone else seen this issue? The error is super weird and the spelling is off, it makes no sense. Just started happening today but can't generate any reports either through Make.com or manually through the S123 dashboard.

Error when generating report:

"binde type esriFieldTypeDate for question start_time is not constist with feature layer field type esriFieldTypeString"

Re: ISSUE: Report Suddenly Not Generating

ZhifangWang — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 02:54:17 GMT

@cfransen ,

The Survey123 website just got an update yesterday, which may have caused this error.

Could you please share with us a minimum survey (or XLSForm file) and the report template that can reproduce this error?

Re: ISSUE: Report Suddenly Not Generating

cfransen — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 03:11:39 GMT

@ZhifangWang

Attached is the XLS Form and the Report Template. I highlighted the field that appears to be causing the issue on the XLS Form in Red.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this!

Re: ISSUE: Report Suddenly Not Generating

ZhifangWang — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:05:48 GMT

Hi @cfransen ,

Thank you for sharing the XLSForm and report template files.

We have identified the issue: it is caused by the "esriFieldTypeString" setting in the bind::esri:fieldType column for a "start" question type. The question in your survey uses the "time" setting in the bind::type column, which is essentially the same to a "start" question type.

We are currently working on a potential fix for this issue and will keep you updated on the progress.

Unfortunately, there is no easy workaround for this issue unless you remove the "esriFieldTypeString" setting in the bind::esri:fieldType column and republish the survey. However, please proceed with caution, as this action will change the underlying feature layer schema and may result in data loss.

Re: ISSUE: Report Suddenly Not Generating

cfransen — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:51:15 GMT

Thank you, hopefully this can be resolved quickly

Re: ISSUE: Report Suddenly Not Generating

cfransen — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:47:06 GMT

@ZhifangWang Has there been any updates on this? We can't generate reports and complete our invoicing.

Re: ISSUE: Report Suddenly Not Generating

JetJohnstone — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:41:34 GMT

We have experienced the same issue. We filed a tech support case and they found a typo in datatype within a field. The name of the datatype was supposed to be: "esriFieldTypeString" however, the letter "i" in "Field" was capitalized. We corrected the typo and republished our surveys and this resolved the issue. This error was in 6 surveys that were built for our agency by the ESRI Advantage Program and was not a problem until the Survey123 Update on 2/26/2025.

Re: ISSUE: Report Suddenly Not Generating

cfransen — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:31:13 GMT

Thank you, I will check the punctuation to make sure that isn't the case!

Re: ISSUE: Report Suddenly Not Generating

JodyZhengLiu — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:13:27 GMT

Hi @cfransen

The fix for this issue is available at https://survey123beta.arcgis.com/. Could you please give it a try?

If this resolves the issue, we plan to update the Survey123 website by the end of this week.

Thanks,
Jody Zheng Liu

Re: ISSUE: Report Suddenly Not Generating

cfransen — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:43:07 GMT

Thank you, @JodyZhengLiu . That appears to have fixed the issue.

Re: ISSUE: Report Suddenly Not Generating

JodyZhengLiu — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 02:28:27 GMT

Great! Thank you for the confirmation!

Re: ISSUE: Report Suddenly Not Generating

JodyZhengLiu — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 05:47:51 GMT

Hi @cfransen, we have updated the Survey123 website with the fix.

Re: ISSUE: Report Suddenly Not Generating

AmandaPaton26 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:41:55 GMT

Hi @JodyZhengLiu , I seem to be having this same issue and it doesn't work in beta either. I'm getting a similar error message "Error: binde type esriAttachment for question sign is not constist with feature layer field type esriFieldTypeString" for an image question.