Google Introduces Web Forms
Feb 11th, 2008 | By Shamim | Category: Applications, FREE, Google, Internet
Creating web-forms has always been difficult for new users. When someone creates a web-form the front-end coded with HTML, JavaScript or Ajax is supported by a database driven backend. This complicated setup has limited the spread of web-forms and is limited to code-aware webmasters. But Google Docs has introduced a new feature in the suite which allows to quickly and easily create forms via the Google Document sharing system. With this feature any Google Docs user can create forms and share them with anyone with an email address to collect information. No need to hassle with code and database. Simply create the form with a title and questions and the order in which the questions appear. After that enter the email addresses of the people you want to share the form with and done!
Google describes the form creating and sharing process as … ”Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address. They won’t need to sign in, and they can respond directly from the email message or from an automatically generated web page.” If you already have a spreadsheet in Google Docs system with the questions you can use it as a template to generate the form. Thus, eliminating the unnecessary need to copy paste material from the document to the form. After the target audience fills out the form the responses are automatically updated in the corresponding spreadsheet.
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That’s a pretty cool feature. No matter how much I have a love/hate thing going on with Google, they still come out with the best new features. They are slowly taking executable software to the net. Soon, people will be saying, “Microsoft had a Office program?”
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Could be a good way to collect poll or survey answers. If the answers are already collected in spreadsheet it saves time having to do an export/import for data analysis.
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