Problem sharing form url, form not appearing

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Hi, I have spent quite some time creating a form and now want people to be able to fill it out. It is a citizen science programme. I want to send the link for the form to the programme participants and they fill the form out at home. I want them to have the option of following that link or going via the app, whichever they prefer.

I have selected accept submissions and share project publicly. This appeared:

Sharing by link is **on with URL https://kc.kobotoolbox.org/forms/fe1f938264fa405fa1cb5cebe78782ee

I sent this link to a friend. When he clicked on it it had info like see data, photos, submissions etc. Only on clicking on enter data in browser did he get to where I would like participants to go directly. How do I do this? I want people just to get the form without having a kobo account and not to be able to see behind the scenes at all.

Thanks a million for your time!

Abi

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@abiocp
Its simple. You will need to send them two links (one for mobile phone app users and the other for those who want to use web form). I have attached a step to show you how to share the link. For those using the app, you need to share https://kc.kobotoolbox.org/YOURUSERNAME. They will have to select the menu > General settings > Server and edit the url with yours. For web users, please refer to step by step approach in the attached

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file. here is my sample link https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/#YOvp

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Thanks a million for the reply! I somehow figured it out last night but it’s great to have it confirmed. Sent the link to a few friends now to test and it is working perfectly. Thank you!

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Share the web link of the form to your users.