Hello,

I have scripted a survey containing more than 350 questions. The survey contains 11 question groups. The last question group contains 6 questions (all of them mandatory). The survey was launched 2 days ago and I have more than 80 completes. For some of the completes there is no data stored in the database only for the questions in the last question group. The issue appears to happen on completely random occasion as the first respondent don't have data, the next three respondents have and the next two don't have, resulting in 27 with no data for these respondents. Weird enough the last 30+ respondents collected so far don't have such issue.

I have scripted the survey using Version 2.06+ Build 151215.

Could you please advise if this is known issue or this is some kind of bug?

P.S. I have tried to amend the data and to add the answers to these questions manually by using Responses and statistics, however when I press Save button the manually added answers disappear and are not saved.

Thank you

It's very unlikely that your survey doesn't record some data, and most unlikely in the LTS branch. LimeSurvey is used by hundred of thousands of people around the world, by many professional companies, and if such a bug would be released it would be caught extremely quickly.

Each time someone claimed "LS doesn't record some responses", it finally results that the problem comes from the survey logic itself, which in those cases are often extremely complex logic. LimeSurvey Professional Hosting clients has right to maintenance and support, so I've myself helped some users claiming that: it always take a very long time to check the survey logic, what is mandatory what is not, in which condition this is shown or not, etc, and it always resulted that the problem was coming from the survey logic, and not from the software.

It seems you have a very complex survey logic, so you can be 99% sure it comes from here.


BTW: you're using an outdated version of 2.06 branch, you should update.

Hi,

Thank you very much for the feedback. I'm sorry but I forgot to mention that these questions are always shown to all respondents and there is no survey logic related to them.

This is actually the reason why I have raised the issue here, also I have tried to amend the data and to add the answers to these questions manually by using Responses and statistics, however when I press Save button the manually added answers disappear and are not saved.

Thanks

will you believe me if I tell you that, at first, people always claim that they check everything and that they are sure they have no logic problem?

and then I check the logic in detail (which take a long time) and find what's going on...

so:
1. first update to the last release of LTS branch
2. find exactly what should be done to reproduce your problem
3. Open a report in the bug tracker, attach a lss file or a lsa file, and describe in detail what should be done to reproduce.

But again: it's extremely unlikely that the problem comes from the software.

just for information: we didn't change the way the responses are recorded since years, nor in LTS branch, nor in the master branch, and even in the develop branch. For the master branch, a few months ago, I still personally checked that everything was recorded fine for each question types, with all the different options/settings. So really, it's extremely unlikely that the problem comes from the software.

I'm just sharing this in case there is some correlation...

We have a similar situation here: a mandatory question that doesn't get saved, and we have no conditions on that mandatory question (it is always shown to the participant). It is the last question displayed in the survey - there is one more question, but it is hidden equation type.


From what we see the only time this last mandatory question isn't populated is when the user gets an error that their submission couldn't be recorded at this time.

I'm wondering if it is somehow related to my observations posted in :
www.limesurvey.org/forum/design-issues/1...ment-selected#158832

And noted in : bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=9643 ?

blocka wrote: …
From what we see the only time this last mandatory question isn't populated is when the user gets an error that their submission couldn't be recorded at this time.

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And noted in : bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=9643 ?

I think i put on the forum : please : open a new bug .