Creating & Managing Forms

Building a form

Go to Forms → New form in your dashboard. The builder has four steps:

1. Basics — set the title, description, and category. You can also choose whether to show your name as the creator, and set a custom public link. If you leave the link blank, one is generated from your title.
2. Builder — add sections and questions. A new form starts empty; add at least one question before you can publish.
3. Settings — response cap, completion message, email verification, and response editing (see below).
4. Review — confirm the Forms Acceptable Use Policy, then publish.

Your form autosaves as a draft once it has a title, description, category, and at least one question. You can leave and resume drafts later from the Forms page.

Settings

• Response cap — the maximum number of responses to collect.
• Completion message — a custom message shown to respondents after they submit.
• Require email verification — on by default. Respondents confirm a 6-digit code sent to their email before they can submit, which keeps out fake or borrowed addresses. You can turn this off.
• Allow response editing — lets a verified respondent return and update the answers they already submitted. Because it relies on a verified identity, it is only available when email verification is on; turning verification off turns editing off.

Publishing

Before publishing, you confirm the Forms Acceptable Use Policy. Illegal, abusive, exploitative, fraudulent, or harmful content can lead to account restrictions.

Form lifecycle

From a form's detail page you can:

• Pause — temporarily stop accepting new responses.
• Resume — start accepting responses again.
• Close — end collection.
• Reopen — move a closed form back to published.

Editing a published form

You can edit a live form. Open it and choose Edit. You can change wording, add questions, reorder them, and adjust settings, and existing responses are kept and stay linked to their questions.

Two things to keep in mind:

• A question that already has responses cannot change type. To switch a question's type, add a new question of the type you want and delete the old one.
• Deleting a question that already has responses removes those answers.