Web forms in Google Docs are a great choice for creating forms like "Contact Me" or even for conducting polls and surveys since the software is free and puts no limit on the number of people who can participate.
The other good part is that all replies are directly saved in an online spreadsheet so it becomes all the more easy to analyze data.
Now if you like to know ASAP when people fill and submit your Google Docs form, here’s a simple workaround.
Create a new form (if you haven’t done that already) in Google Docs and close the window. Now open the corresponding spreadsheet in Google Docs and choose Share –> Set Notification Rules.
Select the "A user submits a form" option and how frequently you would like to get notified. If it’s a "Contact Me" form, the "email right away" may be a good choice but for polls, you may use the daily digest feature.
For more tricks, check the Google Docs Guide.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/email-notification-for-google-docs-forms/5248/
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Reader Comments
Google Forms are indeed useful, but one feature still missing in them is the ability to track users who have filled it. This is still unavailable, and causes a whole lot of spamming, in case the form link is provided openly.
Wonder why Google hasn’t looked into that yet..
Written by atulmathur on 11.07.08
Thanks for this! I knew there had to be a way to get notifications, and it’s so easy once you know how :-)
Thanks!
Written by Teena on 05.01.09