Very Confused Newbie re: Public Forms...

Very Confused Newbie re: Public Forms...

Ok - I have spent far too many hours creating a multi-page form, but everything is essentially working except - I have spent hours trying to figure out how to allow my customer to fill out the form.

If I make the application public, then the customer sees all of the application, views, etc., which is not good.

If I make the application private, then the customer needs a login, which they won't have.

I tried using the permalink code without login, but then I haven't been able to pass the record id in the url from one stateless form to the next, in order to continue posting fields to the database.

I'm very frustrated and promised customer I'd have this form available before I sleep tonight - which is not looking good for me.

Also, I don't understand why

a statement like following works great,
  1.                 openUrl(((("http://creator.zoho.com/" + zoho.adminuser) + "/clients/#Form:BizDetails?ID1=") + input.ID1) + "", "Same window");
when the same thing, but using permalink url for not login like below seems to not pass the ID1 variable to the next form.
  1.                 openUrl("https://creator.zoho.com/mobilelocal/clients/form-perma/BizDetails/dUDhzgTPfqFsUeeZh6eK67Fp6my9VOUaYCNVua4rWHRn5WhOBrmdXzpBK0dONBR7g4tjP8fJaEUK9wnYCNvfzn7Qs0946fywVSNW?ID1=" + id + "", "Same window");



I wonder if there's any chance of sleep for me tonight -
If some kind soul sees this and can answer for me right away, I will surely appreciate it.


TIA!


Kenny