Google Forms: All y'all should know about the new file upload characteristic

Post date: Oct 19, 2016 ix: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 get all applicants' resumes, or a real estate amanuensis who requires of import information on a client such as the ID carte du jour, you are all looking for the option to include a file upload push in your Google Form , so that your respondents can easily add together documents to their form submission.

You might remember those darks days when yous had to find complicated workarounds to compensate for this missing characteristic (e.g. using Google Apps Script and adding some HTML lawmaking). This now belongs in the by!

To address this growing need, Google has released a agglomeration of new features , which include the highly anticipated 'file upload' push into your Google Form !

Note: This file upload pick is only available for Grand 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) tin can now upload files to a Class, and not only people from the same Yard Suite domain.

What does this new feature wait like?

Like any other type of question (curt answer, multiple choice, date etc.) that is already available in Google Forms, you will run into a new entry called ' File upload '. Equally the form creator, all you demand to practise is to add a new question, and select this option in the list:

In the 'File upload' parameters, you can bespeak the maximum file size (from 1 MB to 10 GB) and select which file types are allowed:

Once the push button is added, your respondents will exist able to upload their file to the form submission from the Docs picker. They can either upload a file from their computer or option one bachelor in their Drive :

Annotation: For the moment, respondents are not allowed to upload a whole binder. They can but upload a unique file for each 'File upload' item in your form (but you can have more than i 'File upload' item in your grade).

For example, people can upload 1 resume and one embrace letter (= ii 'File upload' questions) for a task application on the same Google Form:

Uploaded files storage and ownership transfer to Google Grade creator

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

You tin retrieve this folder by going to the 'RESPONSES' tab of your Google Form, and clicking ' VIEW Folder ':

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

If a respondent decides to upload a file straight from his Bulldoze, a copy will be made and the course possessor will become owner of the copy . You volition exist able to runway this whole procedure in the recent 'Activeness' sidebar of your Google Drive.

The process of the uploaded file ownership transfer works every bit follows :

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

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

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

Form Publisher + file upload

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

    • You can cull to insert the link to the uploaded file in your document, encounter the article about link insertion on our documentation.

    • If the file is an prototype (png, jpg, gif) yous can choose to insert information technology direct as an image in your certificate as explained in our article near image insertion .

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