Google Forms: All y'all should know near the new file upload feature

Post engagement: October 19, 2016 ix:xv:56 AM

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The file upload selection is at present bachelor in Google Forms!

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

You might recall those darks days when you had to find complicated workarounds to compensate for this missing feature (eastward.g. using Google Apps Script and adding some HTML code). This now 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 !

Notation: This file upload option is only available for Chiliad Suite customers with a Google Form shared within their system. EDIT : Since seven/ten/2017, all users with a Google account (G Suite and Gmail) can at present upload files to a Grade, and not simply people from the same 1000 Suite domain.

What does this new feature await similar?

Similar any other type of question (brusque answer, multiple choice, engagement etc.) that is already bachelor in Google Forms, you will run into a new entry called ' File upload '. As the class creator, all y'all need to exercise is to add a new question, and select this choice in the listing:

In the 'File upload' parameters, y'all can indicate the maximum file size (from 1 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 tin either upload a file from their computer or selection 1 available in their Bulldoze :

Notation: For the moment, respondents are not allowed to upload a whole folder. They can only upload a unique file for each 'File upload' item in your form (but you can have more than than one 'File upload' detail in your form).

For case, people can upload one resume and one cover alphabetic character (= 2 'File upload' questions) for a job application on the same Google Class:

Uploaded files storage and buying transfer to Google Form creator

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

You can recollect this folder by going to the 'RESPONSES' tab of your Google Course, and clicking ' VIEW FOLDER ':

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

If a respondent decides to upload a file straight from his Drive, a copy volition be fabricated and the form possessor volition go owner of the re-create . You will exist able to track this whole process in the recent 'Activeness' sidebar of your Google Drive.

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

    1. A re-create of the file is uploaded to the Google Course by a respondent

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

    3. The copy is finally automatically added to the form owner'due south appropriate folder

Form Publisher + file upload

Course Publisher lets y'all cull between two options for your file upload questions:

    • Yous can choose to insert the link to the uploaded file in your document, see the article about link insertion on our documentation.

    • If the file is an image (png, jpg, gif) you can choose to insert it directly every bit an image in your document as explained in our article about image insertion .

Farther updates will come before long, so stay tuned and go on an heart on our weblog !