Hi all,

When trying to activate my latest survey, I'm getting an error message that it is not possible because the survey doesn't pass a consistency check, because one of the questions has missing subquestions (see screenshot in attachment).

However, that question ID with number 2002 does not exist and consequently does not appear in my list of questions. So it's hard to make any 'changes' since the section does not exist to begin with. Strangely, when exporting the survey to a printable pdf, at the end of the survey there also unintentionally appears a section called "Coordonnées" with no further fields (see second screenshot).

I'm possibly using an older version of LimeSurvey (Version 2.50+ Build 160317, organisational update constraint there), but I don't have this issue when activating other surveys.

I'm aware other users have reported similar issues on this forum, but the suggested solutions did not work for me (e.g., duplicating the survey and activating that one).

Working on a Windows 10 laptop, in Chrome.

Thank you very much in advance for helping out!

Did you try to use the "Check data integrity"?

Did you export the survey and import it again? Not just using the "copy survey" option?

Unfortunately, I don't have the admin rights to check data integrity. This I will pick up with the IT team here.

Indeed did an export and then imported back, which did not solve it.

Thanks already for the suggestions!

Can you attach a copy of the exported survey here?

Hi again,

Thanks for the proposal, but sharing was tricky with regard to confidentiality.

Meanwhile we found a solution: we went into the exported lss file, searched for the question ID from the error message - the one that did not appear in the interface (in this case 2002), and deleted that section from row to /row. We then imported the modified lss file in a new survey. This new survey could then be activated as expected.

Thanks again for the help!