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Forms

Forms asks for information and keeps the answers — internally, or published publicly when the people filling it in are outside the business.

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Before you start

  • A decision about what happens to the responses, since they can be exported and deleted under their own permissions.

What Forms does

Ask for information and keep the answers.

01

Create, edit and manage a form

The form is the question set. Change one after responses exist and you have two populations in one table, so version rather than edit when the question changes meaning.

02

Publish a form publicly

Publishing is what makes a form reachable by somebody without an account. Everything published is, by definition, visible to anyone with the link.

03

View, export and delete responses

Three separate rights over other people’s answers. Deletion especially should sit with one person, not with everyone who can read.

Worth knowing

  • A form deadline is held in UTC, so it closes at the same instant everywhere rather than at local midnight in each reader’s zone.

What it claims to do

The capability list this guide is written against, unabridged. Nothing above adds to it.

Forms on the Websites page
  • Forms created, edited and managed
  • Published publicly when they are for outsiders
  • Responses viewed, exported and deleted

Where it connects

The modules Forms hands work to, or takes it from. Most problems that look like one module are a handover between two.