Comments on: Google Forms Update

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:11:17 +0000

Ok got it, parent.location dworks in all browsers.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:54:53 +0000

Dillon,

Ruby on rails wasn’t an option as the whole shebang is hosted on Google but I worked my way around the problem.
Basically I wanted a form that would redirect to my own thankyou page within the same google apps site and your tutorial got me most of the way, the only change I made was to substitute window.location (whichs opens the thankyou page in the iframe) with parent.window.location (which opens the thankyou page in the same “_parent” frame. This works in Safari, Firefox and Chrome but not IE8. Will continue to work on it!

By: Dillon

Dillon — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:14:34 +0000

@ Ronald I’ve tried and failed to get multi-page Google forms to work. Redux will provide a js solution that you’ll find useful.

@ Paul This solution has worked ever since Google Forms came out. Unfortunately, I can’t promise that it will continue to work forever.

@ Lee How is your Ruby on Rails? This solution could work for you on your Google Apps site: http://drnicwilliams.com/2010/02/25/customized-google-forms/

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:20:14 +0000

Hi Dillon,

I very much like the fact that you’ve gone to the lengths to help people style their Google Forms for their own sites but is there any way we can do similar styling for Google Forms that are hosted in Google Apps sites? Basically we do not have access to the labels and are not able to insert scripts or iframes.

You most competent assistance would be greatly appreciated.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:44:01 +0000

Hi Dillon

I was wondering if using google form and style it ( using method u proposed here )
will be a long lasting solution for a small website that can not afford paid service.

What do u think ?

and do u still plan on writing the redux post for 2010 ?

By: Ronald Hewlett

Ronald Hewlett — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:01:51 +0000

Many thanks for your tutorials. The only problem I have found with your tutorial ‘Google Forms Update 8 Comments’ is that the code you listed only works with a one page form with the submit button at the bottom of it. I created a form with multi choice questions (Yes and No). I had to insert page breaks to enable a jump to either more detailed questions if the answer was Yes or to jump to another page if the answer was No. The form therefore displays the button ‘Continue’ at the bottom of each page rather than ‘Submit’. I tried viewing the published form and then going to the last page of the form with the Submit button on it. I copied the code onto the web site page and included the additional code in your tutorials but that only displayed the last page of the survey form. I think that a soluiton to this problem would greatly assist many people, me included. Hopefully Redux will give details of how to solve this and other problems people have found with Google forms.

By: Dillon

Dillon — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:19:01 +0000

Thanks DC! We changed the category names and neglected to update the .htaccess redirects for our indexed pages.

Redux is on it’s way!

By: dc

dc — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:49:14 +0000

Hey thanks for taking the time to type this update. Will be looking for the redux whenever you are done with it. I do have a suggestion though, a lot of the search engines are still linking to your first post on Google Forms confirmation redirect and it appears the post is no longer up. Might want to place a redirect on that page all the search engines keep targeting.

Search engines point to here: http://www.morningcopy.com.au/how-to-style-google-forms/, instead the link should be http://www.morningcopy.com.au/announcements/how-to-style-google-forms/

By: Enzo

Enzo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:58:08 +0000

Any progress on the new form styling tutorial? I hope you discuss making use of the pagination capability.

Looking forward to your next post on this!

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