I have a custom form which allows people to submit a form to attend an event, works find and dandy, sends of emails to the right people etc.
What I want to do is list the attendees per event on the front end. An asset listing can list everybody, but as far as I can see no metadata or standard fields to select or group the responses by any value and search is playing hard to get (ie getting 0 results when searching the form submission for values that do exist).
Help 
The folder the holds the form submissions is set to deny the public user read access by default. Did you make sure to change this, to allow the public user to have read access?
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search is playing hard to get (ie getting 0 results when searching the form submission for values that do exist).
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afaik question answers are not searchable, might need a metadata schema with fields filled with the %question_answer_xxxx% keyword in order to search across them.