Request input from third parties/external users

App Building
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Hi,

On of our processes that we would like to improve by utilizing Retool requires occasional input from a third party/external users. We want to ask them to supply or complete data.

I would like to have an external app/site/form that can be opened with a unique url eg. with params or a code verification. This would fetch some data from the database and they would be able to update or complete it.

There are potentially a lot of users that could make use of this, but some of them very often, while other maybe once or twice a year. As it needs to be accessible and the actions to update/complete might only take a minute. I don't want to register users or require them to signup and signin.

I've been thinking of a public app, but those can't make use or url params.
Using the external apps would be expensive with the licensing.

Has anyone a suggestion or did anyone ran into this and solved it?
Thanks

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Hey @mbruijnpff,

You can make use of url params in public apps. I have a similar use case as yours. Our clients' clients need to fill a form that connects to an opportunity and previous records. We send the url with a uuid in the param so it identifies the record related to it. They then register with name and email and when they do so we create a new record in a participants table. Whenever they come back, they re-insert their email and we send them a link with their uuid so they can enter and finish/reinsert whatever info needs to be reinserted.

So definitely something you can do with public apps.