Hi James,
To answer your question....yes, we opened the survey from the Sent box. We didn't actually make any edits, just tried to resend. Prior to that, we had not removed anything from the database. Those 4 sample records (the first 4 out of the 11 collected in the repeat) were still in the SDE. We have since copied and resubmitted the entire survey as a new survey (sans emojis!) and all 11 samples went through successfully.
What exactly happened here? I would very much like to avoid this problem in the future. We could have easily missed the fact that some of the samples were missing in the SDE. And, if the sent survey had been cleared from the ipad, there would be no way to recreate and resubmit the data.
Also, would Jordan Miller suggestion to add the {query allowUpdates=true allowAdds=true} parameter to the repeat have prevented this problem?
Thanks,
Lynn