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Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

PaulSweeney3 — Tue, 06 May 2025 10:44:15 GMT

Hi All

See screen shot below that is appearing intermittently across our forms emebedded in dashboards

the same dashboards were working fine a few days ago and no changes have been made to either the form or dashboard. it only occurs when the form is opened in edit mode. the globalid is present in the feature layer also .

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

SteveMartin__MDTA_ — Tue, 06 May 2025 11:22:50 GMT

I too am having the same issue. Today is the first time seeing this.

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

SteveMartin__MDTA_ — Tue, 06 May 2025 11:30:34 GMT

I think I figured it out. Check the settings for the embedded object. For me, I had it set to latest. I went back and changed it to my current version of Survey123 Connect which is 3.14. I reloaded the page and it works fine now.

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

PaulSweeney3 — Tue, 06 May 2025 12:00:43 GMT

@SteveMartin__MDTA_ yes thats it must be some browser update or something throwing it out i reverted back to 3.21 and it works for me now.

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

bbywaterbw — Tue, 06 May 2025 14:17:52 GMT

I'm having the same issue, but my survey is not only in an embed, I'm also doing some url passing. Everything was working yesterday also. My Survey123 Connect is version 3.22.49. I wasn't using any version information prior to this issue and my url string would look something like this:

https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/(survey id number)?center=42.28321263,-87.84173499&field:appurtenance_type=Valve

Any suggestions where to slip the version information in? When I add it before the question mark or after the ampersand it makes it worse.

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

Joshua-Young — Tue, 06 May 2025 13:53:05 GMT

I am experiencing the same issue. I am not using the Embed widget. I am using the Survey widget. We have not changed anything in our environments for months. I am experiencing this with ArcGIS Enterprise 11.4.

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

SteveMartin__MDTA_ — Tue, 06 May 2025 13:55:58 GMT

When I started out in Survey123, every time ESRI made a change it affected me adversely. It took a bit of figuring what was going on before I got the hang of it.

Just a hunch but open your form in the survey123 website and click settings. What happens if you set it to either one of these options?

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

SteveMartin__MDTA_ — Tue, 06 May 2025 13:57:37 GMT

When I started out in Survey123, every time ESRI made a change it affected me adversely. It took a bit of figuring what was going on before I got the hang of it.

Just a hunch but open your form in the survey123 website and click settings. What happens if you set it to either one of these options?

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

JasonJordan00 — Tue, 06 May 2025 14:08:48 GMT

Can confirm its an issue with the latest 3.22. I just spent 2 hours trying to figure out how I broke my pulldata functions returning 'not an object' in Chrome dev tools only to realize thanks to above if I put version=3.21 they suddenly work.

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

bbywaterbw — Tue, 06 May 2025 14:16:33 GMT

Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately my options are the same either way and didn't have any effect when I used both of them.

I did get it to 'work' right now but am skeptical of what will happen on the next update. I am using url handling and passing information to populate survey fields. For some reason 1 field seemed to be causing the issue and out of desperation I changed it from a read-only (which all of the other fields are set to) to editable and that took care of it. I wouldn't call that a fix but it's working for now.

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

SteveMartin__MDTA_ — Tue, 06 May 2025 14:18:27 GMT

I'm almost positive it has to do with versioning and when ESRI makes changes.

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

Joshua-Young — Tue, 06 May 2025 14:26:24 GMT

@bbywaterbw removing the ready-only from my calculation fields fixed the issue for me as well. My survey was published from Survey123 Connect at version 3.22. I did try using ArcGIS Online Assistant to change the version number in the Experience Builder JSON but that did not fix the issue no matter what version number I used.

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

Jaivik_P — Tue, 06 May 2025 15:30:18 GMT

It is the version issue. We had our survey set to Use latest version, so this error affected us with latest version of 3.22!

We changed the embedded URL to use previous version (version=3.21) and that fixed the issue temporarily.

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

SaadShahzad — Tue, 06 May 2025 15:53:56 GMT

Also running into this issue in Experience Builder survey widget.

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

MelanieWhalen — Tue, 06 May 2025 16:54:06 GMT

This is not resolved for me. I have tried all of the above suggestions and am still getting an error.

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

Marc_Patti — Tue, 06 May 2025 18:54:42 GMT

Started receiving this error in the web app today after I published changes from Connect. Nothing has resolved the issue thus far and we've lost access to a pretty critical inspection form for our township.

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

EddyClark — Tue, 06 May 2025 19:00:40 GMT

Getting the error too.

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

gmontero — Tue, 06 May 2025 19:06:56 GMT

Thank you. It worked for me.

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

Marc_Patti — Tue, 06 May 2025 19:28:14 GMT

Just tried inputting the "version=3.21" parameter into the survey URL and that did fix the issue (for now).

Seems likely that ESRI pushed some update that threw everything off in the last day.

Re: Survey 123 form Error: Initializing form... Error: not a object

MelanieWhalen — Tue, 06 May 2025 19:37:40 GMT

Does anyone have an install of 3.21? I have 3.22 which doesn't work, and I cannot find a download file for 3.21.