thank you Mark,
I agree it should be "really easy" to open a survey in survey123 but unfortunately it isn't.
Imagine the possibilities if people could make apps that are surveys!
I purchased a developer Builder account from ESRI to the tune of 1250$ to be able to customize and brand survey123 with appstudio, which I did, but it's useless - it is not possible to open a survey without a login first. The workflow you outlined can only use esri's survy123 and is what we have been doing, but we wanted branding and invested in developer.
The goal of my public app is to make it as easy, simple and straightforward as possible for people to access and fill out the survey. With this workflow they won"t do it and it's just clunky.
Or they have to install collector, find my map, then click open a survey123? that's even worse.
Esri technical support spun me in circles for weeks and now told me I need to hire an app developer. Which means my investment into the developer account was a loss - I could have used that money to just pay someone design an app from scratch.
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Aurélie Shapiro
Remote Sensing Specialist
WWF Germany
aurelie.shapiro@wwf.de
www.wwf.de/remote-sensing