Is it okay to use ODK for something like this?

[Tyler_Depke]

Yes it would be possible to do this as far as I'm aware. My assumption is that your users all use email for verifcation.

Here are some helpful resources to start:

Script to convert records to PDF

Several of my users have asked me if there is a simple way to convert individual records from ODK in to PDF files. This is pretty useful if you are running ODK for scientific research studies where ethics boards insist that data collection sites retain hard copies of data forms. I've written these scripts for my own use but thought that they might be useful to some others who have similar need. They are a pair of R scripts, one in R markdown. The first will download everything via java ODK brie…

Create personalized Word documents with data from Central

Here's a Python script that uses mail merge to create personalized Word documents with data from Central. This script is great if you want to personalized reports (e.g., a site report from a single submission). You start with a Word mail merge template like this: [template.docx] When you run the Python mail merge script, you get customized Word documents like this with data from Central. [north-park.docx] Thanks to pyODK, the official Python API client for ODK Central, the code is very st…

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These give you static attachments in an email that you could include a follow-up form for the user to click they have verified (Including an ID from the original submission. However, if you were wanting your users that have been emailed not just to verify/view, but to be able to change data, you could do this using a pre-filled URL.

https://forum.getodk.org/search?q=URL%20prefilled%20data

Note, that ODK via web browsers is currently under a big transition from Enketo to Web Forms. Essentially Enketo is no longer being developed and a new architecture is being created for making Web Forms easier to maintain long-term and improve performance/features..