Reference error in Survey123 connect, and hangs when publishing
Hello,
I created a survey in connect, and it was working fine until yesterday. Yesterday, I added a simple note field and not only it hangs publishing the update, now I'm getting all kinds of errors even when I delete the field.
While trying to test it in connect this is the error I get:
Also, the published survey fails submissions:
What has gone wrong?
Hello,
I did talk to Esri team but prior to that I found a way to resolve the issue. In the XLSForm of Survey Connect, you need to set a proper instance name (setting sheet). I realized it has to be the name of one of your fields. I tried a dozen of other names and didn't work. Once I tried the name of my first field, it worked, and I was able to submit a new survey. I don't quite know what "Instance_name" does, but apparently, it makes a connection to the survey file.
Here you can see how I did it:
Survey Sheet:
Setting sheet:
As for the problem with extended publishing time, they noticed that there is an issue on their side, and they have opened a new case for that.
Hope it helps.
Thanks for the reply.
The instance_name defines how the record appears in the field app when a record is edited (editing from Drafts, Outbox, Inbox). It accepts HTML formatting, functions, etc. Here is an example:
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As far as I know, the instance_name does not apply to the Web App, because there is no 'record list' for editing (the form opens directly, with all the data). It seems strange that this has a correlation with the problem. In any case, I will do some tests.
