I have a Google Form and a script and a script bound to the form.
I'm trying to get a function to run when a user fill in the form.
But the only function I get to run is when a hook it to the OnFormSubmit trigger.
No other function is running, no matter what I try.
Can I run a function i Google App Script on initial load when a user is filling the form? Is this possible?
Thanks
More details (I'll accept some other way to accomplish the task):
the function should capture some url parameters I pass to the form, and send it over to Google Analytics... I believe that part is solved here: Google Forms & The Measurement Protocol
As the form has several pages, the parameters I pass to the first page gets lost when the user goes to next pages, so I cannot capture them when submitting the form - therefore I'm trying to do it whenever the users first edits the form.
I tried to add the params as prefilled fields on a hidden page, but if it is hidden then it too gets lost on submitting...
Since Sandy did not write out an answer, I will.
You cannot execute Apps Script as part of a form when the user visits it. You can't modify a form as the user is filling it out (Dynamic form...etc). If you need this type of behavior, you will need to create your own form as part of a Apps Script Web App.
Web App information: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/web
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I would like to use Google Forms in my webapp to run quizzes.
The Google Form is created.
I use the pre-fill option to get a URL.
From my web app I create an iframe and pass the URL (different for each user) by passing the user-id to the form.
User now fills the form and submits.
The data is stored in a spreadsheet.
Earlier I publish the spreadsheet (thereby making it public).
I can now access the spreadsheet data and update my local database.
So currently, when the user submits (from within Google Form) there is no way my web app knows about it. (I have browsed the internet for solutions but did not find any).
Is there a way to get around this?
Currently, at some "stage" in the web app, I check if the user form data is available in the database. If not, I check the spreadsheet for that user data. If found, update the webapp database. So in that sense the webapp uses a pull-feature to check for updates.
Thanks
I see that you want to know when a new Form response has been uploaded. If my understanding of the question is correct, then you could use a simple .onEdit() trigger in the response Sheet. As an alternative, you could use a FormResponse.submit() installable trigger that fires at each response. Please keep in mind that triggers are limited to form uploads that don't fire from API requests and script executions, as detailed here. Please, don't hesitate to ask for further clarification.
UPDATE
Based on your last comment I get that your priority is to see the response Sheet updated in real time. If my understanding of the issue is correct, then you can show the responses Sheet directly in a webapp inside an iframe. Please, ask me any question if you have doubts about this approach.
I have a AppScripts code for creating an expiry date for a Google form. In the code the initial time from which the user can submit a response has to be dynamically changed depending upon the time at which the form goes live every time. This is because of the use case of the form. I can't allow the administrator to go to Script editor and change the value manually everytime he wants the Form go live.
Is there a possibility through which the date can be put in dynamically through an interface.
Here is the link from which I have taken the code.
And in this context I am talking about the variables named:
FORM_OPEN_DATE and FORM_CLOSE_DATE.
You could make a sideBar or a popup with the Html Service and have a little form or prompt dialag where the user can input the variables
I have a simple Google-form for registration users on my service and they need to enter time when they will come. Its a problem when they can enter the same time that another user had placed and I need to check it when user push the submit button.
How can I do it with Apps Script? I have found few examples but still dont understand how to connect my script with submitting.
It's not possible to use Apps script to check data entered into a form pre-submission (Even with triggers, which are all dependent on the data being submitted). In order to do something similar using Apps script, you would need to use the HTML service to write a custom form with a function that allows you to check what data is submitted, and return an error message/refuse to accept the date if it clashes with a pre-existing date.
You are essentially trying to do something similar as the choice Eliminator Forms add-on.
Search the documentation for on form submit trigger. And it will give you an example.
But the catch 22 of it, is that your script runs after the form is submitted, so there is no way to stop the submission if it fails your check.
I am using a form to collect booking details and have the script attached to the form (so that the form submit trigger will trigger when the response is edited, which the spreadsheet bound version does not allow) which sends an email, schedules calendar events, creates confirmation documents etc on form submit. Using if statements I have provided the user the ability to avoid 'click the box to not send the customer an email on submit' functionality so that the form responses can be edited without triggers the automated functions, but that relies on the user remembering to click those boxes.
A better solution would be to be able to have the script, as its final function, change the item response, so that when the form is edited in future, the automatic functions are already disabled.
I do not want to create a new form response (although it would be possible to tweak the pre-populated url to create a duplicate with the appropriate changes)
FormResponse.withItemResponse(response) specifies that it doesn't work on stored responses
It is so easy to view form responses, and with the native edit response url functionality I figured editing a single item response would be doable, but so far it has eluded me.
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks
At this time Form responses could only be created programmatically, they can't be edited programmatically. Consider to submit a feature request through Google Apps Script Issues
I want to collect and validate a value (PIN) in a Google Form. The Form has 2 pages, and I'd like the validation to affect form navigation:
If PIN matched with a value in Column N of the response sheet, continue to page 2 of the form
If PIN not matched, Do not continue.
Can this be done with Google Apps Script?
You are not able to create this type of dynamic form using the Google Forms Service, because there is no interaction between the service and scripts during form entry, except upon Form Submission. In the case of a multi-page form, a script has no way to know that a user has completed one page and gone on to another.
You could achieve this using the HtmlService or UiService, by writing your own form.
Not sure you can do this with Google Forms and Apps Script.
But I have done exactly this with UiApp/Html Service in Apps Script. I used it for a light-duty user authentication.