You can now create forms with Google Spreadsheets. An awesome feature in my opinion.

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/02/stop-sharing-spreadsheets-start.html

That's a very tool.

Cool.

BTW, it looks like the codename was "bluebird" – it's all over the code.

The confirmation mail to inform you that your form has been created starts as follows:

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Yo.

You just sent the "test qus" (http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=blahblahblah) form to the following people:
<snip>
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Yes, "Yo". I kid you not.

This would be perfect if you could embed the code into your own pages (not an iframe but copy/paste the html) to pick up all the styling of your own pages, but store the data with Google.

I know, whinging about such a fantastic new feature is just wrong...

joshnunn: You can take the HTML of the published form and put it wherever you want and it will still work as long as the form structure stays the same. Stylize all you want.

These forms are awesome, however in Czech version the character encoding is wrong and the forms don't work with accented characters properly. Does it work in German?

Yes! This is a good way to pull off having a survey tool without creating an unecessary new service. These google guys are quite clever, no?

A couple of problems in my quick tests:

They allow multiple submissions, making this pretty much useless for public polls.

There is no way to add information like referrer or IP address data to the spreadsheet.

It's really nice though, I'm doing a quick test here if anyone is interested: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pnopUa6jWhtNpE2t4k3AdBA

Yes, missing IP and/or referrer information.
Would be great if new submissions/changes of documents would trigger Google to send email to notify. Could be the perfect solution for a contact form.
Another one is validating, like email address.
Also, the addresses could automatically be added to a Google Apps mailing list for newsletters etc.

I really doubt whether it can be used for public polls which might have dozens or hundreds of people concurrently connecting the the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet was designed for collaboration of a small group. When hundreds of people connect to the same spreadsheet, the performances of publishing changes between the server and the clients will surely be greatly downgraded, and may even crash.

Great feature! I like the way Google havent made Google Polls they've made something better off the back of something they've already got. Saves "integrating" later... build extra features not extra services.

Useful for quizzes in education? Quick tabulation of quiz responses; though check for validity is a problem. Still, better than pencil and paper.

to write a script that will submit over 1 million form results in a few minutes and abuse the feature to hell!?!??!?! ... OH GEEZE ... think of the complications, think of the children!

i can't wait till they find a vulnerability via this new feature.

Bluebird: Strange code name for a google feature as it has quite a different meaning to dutch people and normally they check such stuff...

can we embed form that we create, when I try it not show the form but the spreadsheet itself.

When using this with google for your domain the people who receive the form need to login.. not with a google account but with the google apps account... strange!

See here the problem with Google for you Domain: http://spreadsheets.google.com/a/point.nl/viewform?key=pbWfRZcGnOInGyMwbCWNOBg

That's a great new feature! :)

Brenton, how did you do it to show the results beneath the survey? :o

"There is no way to add information like referrer or IP address data to the spreadsheet."
Not directly, but what you could do is create a form with a blank field for ip address. Copy the html, host it on your own server, change the ip address field to hidden, and use server-side scripting to fill it with the user's ip address. The same would work for referrer.

ok question here.. how the heck do I get the widget to add to a blog.. I just like how the other widgets are available on Blogspot ? just drag and drop method is that possible ?

It's not yet widgetized, you need to have an iframe point to the form unfortunately...

<iframe src="YOUR-DOC-ADDRESS" style="width: 500px; height: 400px"><a href="YOUR-DOC-ADDRESS">Survey</a></iframe>

It's pretty sweet... only thing I'd like to see extra is to have a little more control over the followup message like being able to link back to my home page. If I put HTML in there it just displays as text once the user submits the form. But I think I'll go tell Google that!!!

Few troubles. And I don't even know what are exactly those troubles: when I've changed some questions (only their titles), I found all my questions disordered, and the titles wrong (for half of them, they've become "observations" instead of "name", or "adress").

The worst is that this form has been send to many companies for a large scale communication operation. Interesting experience!

Is there some solution for publishing of the form from Google Apps? I created a survey, but I'm the only one who can answer it :-)
http://spreadsheets.google.com/a/slejska.eu/viewform?key=pjFNNEUR3knHx8f356s1BBA

Anotonin:
Not quite.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pjFNNEUR3knHx8f356s1BBA

Wufoo (http://wufoo.com) is a full featured forms provider. You should check it out. The next thing that Google Forms should include is limiting one response per IP address.

[Link fixed – Tony]