I decided to explore something similar to a Webhook for Google Forms. In other words, something that triggers another action when a Google form is submitted. In this case, when a Google form is filled and submitted, the results should be sent to an API endpoint for adding members to a database. I found an answer in Google Apps Script, a coding language based on Javascript which allows for programmatically extending Google Apps like Google Forms, Sheets, Docs etc.
A nice explanation of how triggers can be used in Google Forms to push new data to other systems. The post is easy to read and includes lots of screenshots to help prevent you getting lost.
In this post, we’re going to look at a simple issues reporting system, where the teacher fills out a Google Form to report the issue. This is stored in a Google Sheet, and an email with the summary of the issue is either sent to the maintenance person or IT technician, depending on the type of issue.
This is based on a system I introduced at the academy where I work, which is in Spain but not all the teachers speak Spanish, so the form allows them to report the issue in English and then it’s translated into Spanish for the relevant person to resolve the issue.
In this post Baz Roberts highlights the benefits of Google Apps Script Language Service to translate Google Form responses into another language.
I wanted a quick and easy way for my kids to track the books they read, as well as a way for my wife to catalog all the books in the house. I know there are other services out there like Goodreads that can store your book list…but I just wanted to house the data myself, and not have to create accounts for my young kids.
Nice little project that glues together Google Forms and Sheets and the Google Book API with a little but of Google Apps Script. Follow the link for more information and the source code.
Google is proud to announce the Google Forms API! The Forms API is currently available in Restricted Beta, with Open Beta expected to follow in Q4. … The new Google Forms API provides programmatic access for managing forms and acting on responses, empowering developers to build powerful integrations on top of Forms.
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On Totally Unscripted we were delighted to have Christian Schalk (Developer Advocate, Google) and Hannah Pho (Software Engineer, Google) as well as early Forms API partners Charles Kemp (Strategic Alliances Manager, Zapier) and Charles Wiles (CEO, Zzish), talk about the new Forms API. A recording of the show is on YouTube and show notes will soon be added to the Totally Unscripted website.
When the users try to write to Spreadsheet using a form, the developers have to consider to the concurrent submission from the form. For example, when the multiple users submit the data with the form simultaneously, all data are possibly not to be saved to the Spreadsheet. So it is considered that it is important to know the information about the concurrent writing to Google Spreadsheet using a form. In this report, such situation was investigated.
A very useful analysis to see how many form submissions can be handled in Google Sheets at the same time. The experiment looks at both submissions using Google Forms and as a Web App.
Use Google Apps Script to create a prefilled URL of data that can be submitted to a Google Form.
Screenshot of Google Form questions
The following Google Apps Script is designed to submit specific data to a Google Form, by creating a prefilled URL. The reason for this was I needed some way of sending data from a number of individual Google Sheets (that I did not own) to one central location, but crucially it needed to be anonymised.
Sending the data directly to a Google Sheet includes version history both in the file and cell meaning it was not truly anonymous. Whereas sending the data through a Google Form and then on to the Response Sheet did strip away anything identifiable.
The logic behind this code is to create a prefilled URL which contains answers to each of the Forms questions. Use the previous webpage link to learn how to create such a URL first so that you understand each question on a Form has a unique value.
At the end of this article, you will know how to create a workflow app, based on a Google Form that send an email to be approved or deny including logging of who is approving or denying with Apps Script.
A few days before publishing this post, I put a call out for some Beta testers to get free access to my new course Google Sheet: Learn the Essentials through 3 Detailed Projects.
I needed a way to provide coupon codes for free access to the course in exchange for some feedback and much-needed tutorials.
To do this, I created a Google Form. This contained some details and expectations, and then some details about the submitter and a consent checkbox at the end. If the submitter consented and hit submit I wanted them to get an email back with the coupon code.
In this tutorial, we will go through how to create a custom auto email response containing:
The submitter’s name in the greeting.
Your email message.
Your primary signature block from your Gmail account.
Recently I raised a support ticket with a tech company I was subscribed to where we were trying to resolve an integration issue I had with their service. Once we had it all resolved they followed up with a feedback form. That feedback form just happened to be a Google Form.
In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through accessing the prefill tool in Google Forms. Then, if you are keen on doing some coding, we’ll create a little custom feedback form for unique users that we will deliver via email.
Nice tutorial from Scott ‘Yagi’ Donald on using prefilled Google Form links. For beginners the post includes everything you need to know. For more experienced developers Scott includes some nice code for handling Google Sheet data.
