I have been working with Survey123 creating an XLS Form. Everything was fine until I think I use too many choices. I have to use the same questions for a lot of variables in my survey: I would have the owner of the pole, and the owner of the anchor and the owner of the wires and so on. The question is: can I use the same choice list in all of the questions?
I have
select_one poleowner | pole_owner |
and the choices are:
list_name | name | label |
poleowner | telus | TELUS |
poleowner | joint | JOINT |
poleowner | bchydro | BC HYDRO |
poleowner | unkn | UNKNOWN |
when I am in other question, I need to know the owner of the anchor
select_one anchorowner | anchor_owner |
Do I have to use another choice list like this?
anchorowner | telus | TELUS |
anchorowner | joint | JOINT |
anchorowner | bchydro | BC HYDRO |
anchorowner | unkn | UNKNOWN |
anchorowner | pole | POLE |
Or can I use the same variable (type and name) and only one list of choices for all the times I need the owner?
something like: select_one owner with the name owner and with a list of choices just owner and the options?
I am asking this because I am getting this XLSForm Conversion Failed error because I think I have too many choices ....it is a long form and I have this questions and others repeated over and over and I have created a long list of choices.
Hi.The XLSForm validation service is not returning XLSForm syntax error descriptions. I created an internal note to point this out.
You should be able to reuse lists across multiple questions. Pleas wait until the validation service problem is addressed. Without proper error messages is very difficult to design a form. In line 5 your question references a missing list in the choices list. Lines 40 and 41 also cause trouble, but I have not been able to figure out what's wrong with them.
My comment on reuse is almost moot after Ismael's response but I will agree and confirm that you can reuse items in the choice list for different questions. I do it repeatedly with yes_no, name lists, and condition assessment questions.
As to the error message with no details about XLSForm conversion, I get the same message and have been unable to determine the cause.
I received the error XLSForm conversion failed! this morning, when trying to make a survey from a feature class. my other surveys work fine and I can update them. It only happens on new surveys. I still receive the excel data, very strange. Am I doing something wrong or is it the program itself? Thank you for your time.
Thank You! I missed that post.
The fix is now in production. Thanks for your patience.