Google Forms: All you should know near the new file upload characteristic

Post date: Oct 19, 2016 9:xv:56 AM

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The file upload option is now available in Google Forms!

Whether you are a teacher who wants to collect students' homework assignments, a recruiter who needs to become all applicants' resumes, or a real estate agent who requires important information on a client such as the ID card, yous are all looking for the option to include a file upload button in your Google Form , so that your respondents can easily add together documents to their form submission.

You might call up those darks days when you had to find complicated workarounds to compensate for this missing feature (due east.g. using Google Apps Script and adding some HTML code). This at present belongs in the past!

To accost this growing demand, Google has released a bunch of new features , which include the highly anticipated 'file upload' button into your Google Form !

Note: This file upload option is but available for Thousand Suite customers with a Google Form shared inside their organization. EDIT : Since 7/10/2017, all users with a Google account (G Suite and Gmail) can now upload files to a Form, and non only people from the same G Suite domain.

What does this new feature look like?

Like whatever other type of question (brusque answer, multiple choice, appointment etc.) that is already available in Google Forms, you lot volition run across a new entry chosen ' File upload '. As the grade creator, all you demand to do is to add a new question, and select this option in the listing:

In the 'File upload' parameters, yous can signal the maximum file size (from one MB to 10 GB) and select which file types are allowed:

Once the button is added, your respondents will be able to upload their file to the form submission from the Docs picker. They can either upload a file from their figurer or choice one available in their Bulldoze :

Notation: For the moment, respondents are non allowed to upload a whole binder. They can only upload a unique file for each 'File upload' item in your grade (but you tin have more than one 'File upload' detail in your form).

For example, people can upload one resume and one cover alphabetic character (= two 'File upload' questions) for a task application on the same Google Grade:

Uploaded files storage and ownership transfer to Google Course creator

For each 'File upload' item inserted in your form, a Drive binder is automatically created . By default, it reuses your form question as the folder title :

You can think this folder past going to the 'RESPONSES' tab of your Google Form, and clicking ' VIEW Folder ':

A link to each file is also visible in this course responses tab, alongside the responses spreadsheet if you lot have linked a Google Sheet to your form:

If a respondent decides to upload a file straight from his Bulldoze, a copy volition exist made and the form owner will become owner of the copy . You will be able to track this whole process in the contempo 'Activeness' sidebar of your Google Drive.

The process of the uploaded file ownership transfer works as follows :

    1. A copy of the file is uploaded to the Google Grade by a respondent

    2. The buying of this copy is then automatically transferred to the form owner

    3. The copy is finally automatically added to the grade owner'southward appropriate binder

Grade Publisher + file upload

Form Publisher lets you lot choose between two options for your file upload questions:

    • You can cull to insert the link to the uploaded file in your certificate, see the article most link insertion on our documentation.

    • If the file is an image (png, jpg, gif) you tin cull to insert it straight as an image in your document as explained in our article about epitome insertion .

Further updates will come presently, so stay tuned and keep an centre on our blog !