I made a form with Google Form Builder, then I add a script for it.
I can run Session.getEffectiveUser().getEmail() to the respondent's email address. but I cant fill it in the textbox to assist them. Can I do such thing with Google App Script?
I think I found a solution to your problem. But I must admit it was not evident.
In apps scripts documentation you've got everything to create a prefilled url.
BUT for that you need to have a ItemResponse element and I didn't found any explaination to build one. The trick is when you've got an item you can get a ItemResponse from it if you get it as a defined type "asTextItem()".
Best way to understand it, is to watch the code below:
function getPreFilledItem(){
var form = FormApp.openById("YOUR_FORM_ID");
var items = form.getItems();
var itemOfInterest;
for(var i in items){
if(items[i].getTitle()=="YOUR_QUESTION_TITLE"){
itemOfInterest=items[i];
}
}
Logger.log(
form.createResponse().
withItemResponse(itemOfInterest.asTextItem().createResponse("PREFILLED_TEXT")).
toPrefilledUrl()
);
}
Hoping this will help you,
Harold
You can't dynamically modify Google Forms by attaching a script to the Form. See a recent question I asked to get a better understanding.
Basically, you can only use Google Apps Script to create forms in an automated manner. You can't set values for the items as of yet (I certainly hope they add this in the future...).
You can also see the limitations for Forms by looking at the documentation (TextItem, for example).
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I am creating a Google Form dynamically, and emailing it, using Google Apps Script.
I have all the users info, and have figured out how to record the response. However, I would like to add that person's email to the row in the sheet.
It would be ideal if there was a way, since we already collected their email, to pass this email in the "background" to the form we send, and it is attached with there answer in the responses sheet.
Thanks!
I was not able to rest until I got this worked out. This article from almost three years ago really helped.
Not exactly what I was going for, still open if anyone knows how to actually pass info in the background to a sheet.
var items = formName.getItems();
var itemOfInterest;
for(var i in items){
if(items[i].getTitle()=='QUESTION_TITLE'){
itemOfInterest=items[i];
}
}
var preFilledUrl =
schedForm.createResponse().
withItemResponse(itemOfInterest.asTextItem().createResponse(email)).
toPrefilledUrl();
This prefills that question box, so also giving the user the ability to edit before they send. It'll work.
when you are not using scripts, there is an option to put a condition for inputting e-mail adresses then making it a required question. Because I'm randomizing my test and refreshing it every minute I cant do this manually, is there a way to do this by script?
Update: Google team implemented this feature. Check it out: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/forms/data-validation-builder
Here is the ticket to add this feature:
https://code.google.com/p/google-apps-script-issues/issues/detail?id=4216#makechanges
About make the item required, you can do it like this:
if (item.getType() == FormApp.ItemType.TEXT){
var textItem = item.asTextItem();
textItem.setRequired(true);
}
You can do that for any item type that can have answer.
For the complete list of the Items types refer to this link:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/forms/item-type#properties
Here's my problem:
I can't seem to piece this info together nor find it anywhere even though it seems simple enough. When I find help, they just tell me to enter it manually (but my users can't be trusted) or make a new form (not an option).
What I need is to be able to keep:
the same google form
it's ID and link to the same spreadsheet
the same 20 "paragraph text" questions (titles remain the same).
There can't be any new questions or anything that would change the name or layout of the response destination page in the spreadsheet.
However, what I want is:
to update the help text below these questions from twenty cells in the spreadsheet. If my cells are from a range called questions!b2:b19 in the same spreadsheet, how do I use a script to take their contents and write over and update the help text in these paragraph questions on the google form?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
It might be easiest to create your form in AppScript. With your form created, you can then use AppScript to access your spreadsheet. Read the information from the sheet and use it to create the help text on your questions with setHelpText.
Here's a basic sample.
var form = FormApp.create('New Form');
var item = form.addCheckboxItem();
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openById("<ID>");
var val = ss.getRange(<RANGE>).getValue();
item.setTitle('Question');
item.setHelpText(val);
item.setChoices([
item.createChoice('ONE'),
item.createChoice('TWO'),
item.createChoice('THREE')
]);
I'd like to create a form by google script.
This is pretty easy but I'd like to attached this form to a spreadsheet (no only the response), like I would have created it by the UI.
Is that possible ? Given the Formclass or FormApp is doesn't seem so. Is there a way around ?
EDIT: My goal was to create the form with the script and having the same result as if the user had had the form created from the UI interface (the main difference being having the form menu in the SS UI). It's apparently not possible.
You're right - it's pretty easy once you have the trick. Use FormApp to get the published URL of the form, UrlFetch to grab its html, then the HtmlService to present the form in the spreadsheet's UI.
See Single Google Form for multiple Sheets.
I am new to the world of Google's Apps Script, and I am trying to create a basic UI for my end user to query data (stored in google spreadsheets) and display the data in a formatted / user friendly way.
Since I want to start off simple and add in components as I learn Apps Script I decided to create a basic form that will allow me to enter text in a text box, then assign that value to a label (what I thought would be a simple exercise in creating basic form components, and retrieving / assigning values).
Unfortunately the stumbling block I ran into is that there is no getText() or TextBox.getValue() function. I tried searching through online forums / google etc to find out the way around this, but nothing I try seems to work (previous searched led me totry and work this out in an event handler).
My question is this. If I have a textBox ('textBox1') and a button ('button1') and a label ('label1'). How to I get my web app to assign the value I enter in textBox1 to label1 when I click button1?
I realize this is probably the most basic of questions, and I know it has been asked before....but no matter how hard I dig through these old posts I can't seem to figure what should be an easy bit of code out.
Thanks in advance.
Suppose you have code that looks like this:
var textbox = app.createTextBox().setName("textboxName");
var buttonHandler = app.createServerHandler("updateLabelText").addCallbackElement(textbox);
var button = app.createButton("Click me").addClickHandler(buttonHandler);
var label = app.createLabel().setId("label");
Then in your function:
function updateLabelText(e) {
var app = UiApp.getActiveApplication();
app.getElementById("label").setText(e.parameter.textboxName);
return app;
}
So the things to note:
The button handler is given the name of a function that you define somewhere else in your code.
The button handler also must be given a "callback element". This is required if you want to read the value of that element in your function. You can add a panel as a callback element and anything that's on that panel will be added to the callback.
Values of callback elements are passed back through e.parameter. The property name is the name of the element. Example: e.parameter.textboxName.
The label needs an ID so that you can reference it from your other function.