Data is cleared when deleting a post in repeat

[PatricWiström]

Hi!

We have a problem with the Survey123 field app version 3.16.114 The version we used before, 3.13 does not have this behavior.

In a repeat containing 3 questions where the 2 later are relevant to the answer of the first. If I enter 2 repeatposts with different answer to the first question, and then delete the first post, the data in the remaining repeatpost disapears. It's like the relevant expression evaluates with data from the deleted post.

If the 2 posts have the same answer to the first question the data remains.

For example: In the attached sample form, if I enter:

Repeatpost 1:  Type = "Animal" sel1 = "Dog"

Repeatpost 2:  Type = "Color" sel2 = "White"

Then I delete post 1 the remaining post shown up like: Type = "Color" sel2 = "" . 
The value "White" is deleted since it's not relevant to Type "Animal"

Can this behavior be avoided in any way or is it a bug in 3.16?

Survey:

type	name	label	relevant
begin repeat	repeat0	Repeat0
select_one itemtype	itemtype	Type of item
select_one sel1	sel1	sel1	${itemtype}="animal"
select_one sel2	sel2	sel2	${itemtype}="color"
end repeat

Choices:

list_name	name	label
sel1	dog	Dog
sel1	cat	Cat
sel2	white	White
sel2	black	Black
itemtype	animal	Animal
itemtype	color	Color

[ZacharySutherby · Accepted solution]

Hello @PatricWiström, 

Thank you for reporting this I'll go ahead and log an issue for this. To workaround the issue you can move the expressions from the relevant column to the body::esri:visible column.

[PatricWiström]

Thanks for quick response! 

Unfortunately, the body::esri:visible workaround is not an option for us in this case since we can't risk not relevant data being replicated to the database. Hopefully this will be resolved in a future release.

Regards,
Patric