For context, I had a Google form open in a tab before the deadline and was working on it as a draft. I finally hit submit, and got taken to a screen that said the form had closed. I checked, and it turned out the form had closed a few hours earlier. Does anyone know if my response still went through?

I've never used Google Forms and I am wondering if it possible to use this as a tool to collect simple information from a conference attendees.

I would like to have a computer(s) with a few simple questions for the attendees to answer: Name, email etc. The user will enter this information, press the submit button and then another form will load for the next person to enter their information.

If Google Forms is not the proper tool for this usage, is there a different free, online tool I can use?

Also, once the attendee presses the button how do I access this information?

I'm creating a Google Form that will collect responses and send them to my email. However, I'm worried that someone could use a bot to spam the form and flood my inbox with junk responses.

Is there any way to secure the form so that only legitimate users can submit it? I'm looking for free solutions that can detect or prevent bots, especially since the form will be publicly accessible.

Has anyone faced this issue before? What worked for you?

Thanks in advance!

Hi there! I'm a teacher and I've been using Google forms since 2020 without any major inconvenients. However, ever since today whenever I try to post feedback on my students' responses all I get is this error message: File unavailable

Sorry, there's a problem with this file. Please reload.

I've deleted cache, used different browsers, restarted the computer, tried on my phone and so on.

Nothing seems to work and this happens on every single form no matter how big or small.

Is anyone else experiencing something similar? Any ideas? AI keeps claiming that there is no such Google workspace outage at the moment so I'm both frustrated and confused.

Feedback appreciated!

I'm curious if anyone else has had this issue.

Yesterday had a form with 3 dropdown selection questions that were working fine. Today, when I go to review responses they show all of the possible answers on each one.

I (and others) have been asked for feedback about a boss that does not take feedback well. The form requires log in. How concerned should we be that some crackerjack in the office who's "good at IT" will figure out who sent in what? (My folks know VPN, Private Browsing, etc.)

It's a small nonprofit, but you never know who has a tech-savvy side hustle.

Is is possible to require an email but not a gmail? I want to be able to send automatic responses, but not everyone I'm sending it to has a gmail account.

Trying to print individual responses, but with dropdown responses it prints the whole list. Is there a fix for this?

I'm currently working on a website for an office that utilizes a client intake form. I had originally constructed the form in Wix, however it's a MASSIVE form and exceeded their limits, so I had to pivot to Google Forms. I'm new to the platform, but managed to get the entire form built out to a point they're happy with it.

I've found Form Notifications to be able to alert the staff when they've received a new submission, but now I'd like to be able to actually attach the submission results as a PDF to those notifications, so they're able to print the client intake form and move on. I found a few add-on options like Mail Merge and DocsAutomator that seem like they might get the job done, but I'm not going to be able to convince the client to spend any money on signing up for one of those.

Does anyone know of a way I can accomplish this task for free?

To recap, I want the following flow:

> end-user submits Google Form

> end-user receives confirmation email (no attachment required here)

> specified email receives notification that the client form has been filled out, with result attached as a pdf.

Thanks in advance!

I am on the Google Forms team.

Recently we have launched a few Gemini features in Forms:

1. Gemini to help create a form: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/06/help-me-create-gemini-google-forms.html

2. Gemini to suggest new questions: Gemini suggests relevant questions for your form
   https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/08/gemini-google-forms-suggest-questions.html

3. Gemini to summarize text responses: Gemini helps to convert text responses into insights
   https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/06/summarize-responses-with-gemini-google-forms.html

And for non Gemini features, we added granular sharing controls for responders
https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/12/add-granular-control-to-google-forms.html

What are the other feature requests you guys have.
Most interested in AI feature requests, but open to hear about others.

Can be related to form creation, understanding responses, quizzes or anything else

Hello guys,

Im currently developing a google form ad on, and one of the features is customizing google forms. I am using form's REST api to fetch the structure and content of the form and have it rendered on the custom ui boilerplate i made. my concern is if i make the the ui typeform/jotform like i ll have a polished ui but it erodes users' trust as people want the feel and look of the usual gogole forms. on the other hand, if i make it like pretty form designer/formfacade , it will surely look like google forms but it cant be customized much.

so which do you think i should use?

A company is offering to do direct deposit payment, which I typically would prefer also.

Although they sent a link to fill out a Google Form (which includes stuff like bank account number and void cheque).... And I have my hesitations.

Is Google Forms secure? If there's different options for security, how do I tell?

Can you provide a link for documentation whichever way the answer is?

The company itself I know and trust, and the payment is valid... but I'm not 100% confident on their measures (in an knowledgeable sense).

I would love to have google forms be able to set questions for each speciic user that opens the form.

I spent some time getting the questions for a radio button set in google forms to change depending on the user email address captured when the user opens the form. I was successful to change the questions with data from a sheet on the second section, page two of a multipage form set. It was a lot of work but the success was excellent.

It was short lived.

Is it correct that Google forms cannot operate dynamically?

If you would like to see some nasty code, just ask.

Hello! I have an instagram account that has a link to a google forms submission form. Users can click the link, submit a question, comment anonymously, and I create instagram posts with them (usually about 10 submissions a day....I take screenshots and post them in one post). Recently, someone has figured out how to spam the link and submit thousands of nonsensical posts, clogging up the actual posts. I did not have email verification on prior to this, turned it on to stop it, and it has not worked, as they are creating emails now.

can anyone help me figure out how to prevent this, or maybe a different program other than google forms?

Hi, guys. Does any of you here know how to convert the responses of Multiple choice grid? It only shows how many people response on "5" or "4".

My column is 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. It's a likert scale. Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree but it doesn't show the percentage on how many people responded. Can someone help me? Or like if someone knows how to by using an excel?

I have changed it yesterday but now i can't change it anymore ... How is this possible?

I am almost done building a Google Forms add on., and i need you guys' feedbacks.

It has the following features :

• better ui ( like form facade and pretty form designer add ons)

• a way to design place holder pdfs to collect the responses and finally send it to the respondents or yourselves (much like form publisher and certify them add ons)

• a visual form approval builder , you can build chains of approvals and write custom emails and pdf placholders ....(like form approval add on)

• a visual page logic builder, to show next page or not based on answers in the cureent page (and,or not operators included)

• more form elements, like embedding audio, easy file uplaoder , item ranker, location

• for teachers : quiz mode and scoring , also an exam proctor that reports switching tabs,windows ,and other violations (also can set number of violations allowed to submit exams)

• multilingual form (you can translate your form)

• limit form choices,

• finally ai mode to generate form contents

No other responses were recorded. Just email addresses, which is required on the first section of the form.

Has anyone experienced this before? The emails are random. Like the form got invaded by a bot or something. Should I just create a new one? I made a special link (which isn’t editable) for this so I’m kinda hesitant… ☹️

I am building an inventory system for my job. I have the sheet setup to pull input data and create and order needs section. My goal is to link a QR code to a google form and when it is scanned it will auto submit the auto-filled form link. Is this possible? Also would a QR code scanner be able to submit the form or would it have to be done with a phone?

Looking for help on creating an order form that can block orders (or remove options, etc.) if something is out of stock. It could be a message, form is stopped from going through, anything really that tells people what they want isn't in stock. Would also be great if once an order is placed the inventory sheet is updated to reflect live inventory (although I'm pretty confident I can do that part myself, and fairly certain this is a necessary part of building what I'm asking about.)

For context - I run my school's store that students get prizes from. They submit orders using a google form each week. Unfortunately we often have kids ordering only to find out on pick up day that whatever they ordered is out of stock, as there's often not an easy way for us to update options.

I've done some research and seen a few options that use a chrome extension. I'm not opposed to this but would love to do it without an extension if possible, because the extension appears to be blocked by my district's firewall. I MIGHT be able to submit a request for it to get unblocked (or I could set up the form from my personal computer?) but would prefer not to have to go that route.

If you know a great tutorial or have some tips, please let me know. Thanks so much for any suggestions!

I have a form that multiple students fill out repeatedly throughout the academic year. I would like students to be able to view their responses from each time that they submit the form. However, I do not want them to see other students' submissions so I can't just link the form to a response spreadsheet and then share the spreadsheet with all of the students. I know that Froms has a setting to send a copy of a given submission to the responder but via that method, students have to dig through their emails to find each of those. Is there a way to enable students to view all of their responses over the course of multiple submissions but only their personal submissions and not the responses of other students?

My school required us to answer in gforms for details, and ever since I wrote down my active phone number as an answer (it was required), the following days i kept getting a call each day from different numbers. I doubt it's from my school since they would have sent a message before calling. I also began to receive obvious scam texts. I don't really remember giving out my number on anything else.

while I was doing a survey for my project I keep having to repeat the same question and embarrassingly asked the participants to restart the survey because one of my questions in question summar just shows 'zn', literally just an and not any chart. can anyone please help?

Hi, I’m trying to set up my Google form to send three different emails to three different email addresses upon completion of form using Google Script.

I need one email to contain all the content (questions/answers) from the form included, for the other two emails I need to include only specific fields (i.e I want to exclude the more personal info fields). I managed to get the first email working using the this script from the spreadsheet dev site but can’t work out how to add on the other two emails where only specific fields are to be sent. Any help much appreciated!

// Restrict the script's authorization

// to the form it is bound to.

//@OnlyCurrentDoc

// Create a form submit installable trigger

// using Apps Script.

function createFormSubmitTrigger() {

// Get the form object.

var form = FormApp.getActiveForm();

// See if the trigger has already been set up.

// Since we know this project should only have a single trigger

// we'll simply check if there are more than 0 triggers. If yes,

// we'll assume this function was already run so we won't create

// a trigger.

var currentTriggers = ScriptApp.getProjectTriggers();

if(currentTriggers.length > 0)

return;

// Create a trigger that will run the onFormSubmit function

// whenever the form is submitted.

ScriptApp.newTrigger("onFormSubmit").forForm(form).onFormSubmit().create();

}

// A function that is called by the form submit

// trigger. The parameter e contains information

// submitted by the user.

function onFormSubmit(e) {

// Get the response that was submitted.

var formResponse = e.response;

// Get the items (i.e., responses to various questions)

// that were submitted.

var itemResponses = formResponse.getItemResponses();

// Create a variable emailBody to store the body

// of the email notification to be sent.

var emailBody = "New form response:\n\n";

// Put together the email body by appending all the

// questions & responses to the variable emailBody.

itemResponses.forEach(function(itemResponse) {

var title = itemResponse.getItem().getTitle();

var response = itemResponse.getResponse();

emailBody += title + "\n" + response + "\n\n";

});

// Send the email notification using the

// sendEmail() function.

sendEmail(emailBody);

}

// A function that sends the email

// notification.

function sendEmail(emailBody) {

MailApp.sendEmail("<EMAIL_ADDRESS>", "New form response", emailBody);

}

This question is kind of weird, and I don't know how to word it, but I'm making a form that requires a dropdown box with a TON of options. The problem is that whenever I put the options in the dropdown menu, it completely destroys my entire form because I have to scroll down so much. I'd also rather not just go through them all at the end because I plan to keep updating/working on it. So is there a way to keep the options still inputted to the question, but hide the long list of them?