# Allow data collectors to edit their submissions from Central

**URL:** <https://forum.getodk.org/t/allow-data-collectors-to-edit-their-submissions-from-central/54830>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Created:** [May 9, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/allow-data-collectors-to-edit-their-submissions-from-central/54830 "2025-05-09T02:45:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Florian\_May](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.getodk.org/florian_may/32/7758_2.png) [@Florian\_May](https://forum.getodk.org/u/Florian_May)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/allow-data-collectors-to-edit-their-submissions-from-central/54830/1 "2025-05-09T02:45:45Z")

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Could editing a submission work as a web form?  
Could there be an API endpoint to generate a forever or one-time editable form link?

Our user story:

- In our web portal, an end user without any ODK account follows an ODK Central public submission link to submit a web form.
- We pull in the submission data and render it to the end user, so they can see what they said in the submission.
- We also process the submission data and use it in our data warehouse.
- The end user might want to edit their submission.
- We want to generate an "edit as web form" link for that particular submission.
- The end user can edit that submission until we have "approved" in Central, or we revoke the edit link.

Pre-populating a new web form with existing submission data via URL parameters might fail at the 2000 character URL limit.

Alternatively, a new submission with old data preloaded, i.e., a clone of a given submission\_id as a new submission, would also work.