Support » Plugin: Google Forms » The confirmation page edit link, and e-mail on a new page

  • Resolved wewillheal

    (@wewillheal)


    Hey guys! Great plugin!

    I noticed you could have your own custom confirmation page. But I would need the edit link on it and I would need a confirmation e-mail to be sent out. I’m not using your e-mail form option because it doesn’t match the css which is another problem I’m having.

    But how would I go about doing this? Thank you!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpgform/

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  • Plugin Author Mike Walsh

    (@mpwalsh8)

    I am not sure I fully understand what you are asking here but I’ll do my best to guess.

    1. Yes, you can have a custom confirmation page and it can contain whatever contewnt you want. What it cannot do is have any sort of dynamically generated link based on the Google Form.
    2. If you are looking to allow users to edit their responses after submission, this plugin will not meet your needs. The way the plugin works, the information Google caches to know your response is lost because the client browser doesn’t actually submit the the response to Google, it submits it to the WordPress site which then submits it to Google using the WordPress HTTP API.
    3. I am not sure what CSS you are referring to for the email. The email notification is very basic and does not contain the actual responses to the form. Because Google supports multi-page forms, keeping track of an unknown number of form fields across submissions isn’t really practical so it isn’t something which is supported. Are you asking if the form confirmation email can match your site’s CSS? If so, that would be really hard to accomplish with the myriad of ways WordPress themes implement CSS.

    Hope that clarifies some things, let me know if I have misunderstood your questions.

    Thread Starter wewillheal

    (@wewillheal)

    Hey! Thank you for replying so fast! I’m worrying about the CSS after I can get everything figured out.

    So… I did some research and I found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10710354/how-to-add-edit-response-link-to-google-forms-emails

    I honestly can’t get the e-mail thing going let alone add this getEditResponseUrl() thing to it but it seems as if it’s a possibility now. I don’t know if you guys help with the scripts though.

    But as long as I can create a custom wordpress confirmation page telling my submitter’s to check their e-mail, and the edit link would be in the e-mail, everything would be A-OK!

    Whatever help you have to offer, I’ll take it. I was supposed to finish this site 2 weeks ago. Lol. I could have used other plugins but we need the Google forms as my other admins HAVE to use their mobile phones and need to edit the spreadsheet the form creates.

    Plugin Author Mike Walsh

    (@mpwalsh8)

    The solution in the stackoverflow thread should work but you do it within Google Docs and not within WordPress as part of setting up form for the WordPress site. So what you are proposing – a confirmation page on your site with instructions to check email and a Google App Script attached to the form response spreadsheet which actually sends the email, should solve your problem. I cannot think of a better solution.

    I actually have something similar for my Help and Support Form. I actually get two emails, one from the WordPress form submission and one from Google Docs. It is a little overkill but I set it up to understand how it works and never bothered to turn it off.

    As for helping you with the Google Docs App script, that I cannot do – that is way out of scope and has absolutely nothing to do with my plugin. From reading the SO thread it doesn’t look too complicated though.

    Thread Starter wewillheal

    (@wewillheal)

    Thank you so much for your help. 🙂

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