Google Docs Beefs Up Its Response-Gathering Forms
If you like your Google Docs enough to use them as a public or semi-private polling tool, Google has added a grid-style question selection form, made the results charts cleaner and prettier, and now allows form owners to pre-populate fields with example data, along with adding bi-direcitonal language support. Know of a great use for Google Docs’ forms? Tell us in the comments. [Official Google Docs Blog]
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We used a Google Docs form for our wedding RSVPs. It worked great.
My biggest feature request would be some sort of login support, so people who reply could go back and change their answers later.
dotyoureyes
I used Google forms for a very simple fire and forget Bug tracking system. The user would create the bug report on a nice form and then I could view the data behind.
Great use of google docs?
In my position at work there's not very many systems in place to manage my staff.
So I've made forms for my workers to request leave, take surveys about the position, made an online application for new employees, schedule request forms, and I keep finding new ideas for forms that help me manage everything at my job.
Daveed
@dotyoureyes: There's a way to hack Google Spreadsheets into a ghetto CMS tool which you could then embed a script elsewhere where people could edit the form info after its dumped in the spreadsheet. Its a long hack, but I've played with just such an idea. just never got it working completely as I'm a novice java scripter.
heartlessgamer
This makes me so happy. But damn, I wish they'd released this update 2 weeks ago...