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Users - Forms
- API documentation
- Notes
- Definitions
- Create a Form
- Update a Form
- Extended Example
- Display Forms
- Display Form Responses
- Combine Form Information
API documentation
Notes
To use these commands you must add the 'Forms API' to your project and update your service account authorization.
Forms are identified by their <DriveFileID>
.
gam update project
gam user user@domain.com update serviceaccount
Definitions
<DriveFileParentAttribute> ::=
(parentid <DriveFolderID>)|
(parentname <DriveFolderName>)|
(anyownerparentname <DriveFolderName>)|
(teamdriveparentid <DriveFolderID>)|
(teamdriveparent <SharedDriveName>)|
(teamdriveparentid <SharedDriveID> teamdriveparentname <DriveFolderName>)|
(teamdriveparent <SharedDriveName> teamdriveparentname <DriveFolderName>))|
(teamdriveparentid <DriveFolderID>)|(teamdriveparent <SharedDriveName>)|
(teamdriveparentid <SharedDriveID> teamdriveparentname <DriveFolderName>)|
(teamdriveparent <SharedDriveName> teamdriveparentname <DriveFolderName>)
<Time> ::=
<Year>-<Month>-<Day>(<Space>|T)<Hour>:<Minute>:<Second>[.<MilliSeconds>](Z|(+|-(<Hour>:<Minute>))) |
(+|-)<Number>(m|h|d|w|y) |
never|
now|today
Create a Form
gam <UserTypeEntity> create form
title <String> [description <String>] [isquiz [Boolean>]] [<JSONData>]
[drivefilename <DriveFileName>] [<DriveFileParentAttribute>]
[(csv [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*]) | returnidonly]
<JSONData>
is a list of form update requests.
If drivefilename <DriveFileName>
is not specified, the file will be named <String>
from title
.
By default, the user, form title and file name/ID values are displayed on stdout.
csv [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*]
- Write user, file ID, file name, form title and responderUri values to a CSV file.returnidonly
- Display just the file ID of the created file as output
To retrieve the file ID with returnidonly
:
Linux/MacOS
fileId=$(gam user user@domain.com create form title "xyz" ... returnidonly)
Windows PowerShell
$fileId = & gam user user@domain.com create form title "xyz" ... returnidonly
The file ID will only be valid when the return code of the command is 0; program accordingly.
Update a Form
Select forms with <DriveFileEntity>
:
<DriveFileID>
- Update a specific formmy_forms
- Update all forms owned by the user
gam <UserTypeEntity> update form <DriveFileEntity>
[title <String>] [description <String>] [isquiz [Boolean>]] [<JSONData>]
<JSONData>
is a list of form update requests.
Extended Example
This example illustrates the use of JSN data to create and update forms
concerning student classtoom attendance.
The form has two items: Absences and Notes.
In Absences
, the teacher can check All present.
or check individual student absences.
In Notes
, explanatory notes can be entered.
Create
This is the form create request JSON.
The deleteItem
request deletes the default item on a newly created form.
{
"requests": [
{"deleteItem": {"location": {"index": 0}}},
{"createItem": {
"item": {
"title": "Absences?",
"description": "To report attendance adjustments for late arrivals, please email attendance@domain.com.",
"questionItem": {
"question": {
"choiceQuestion": {
"type": "CHECKBOX","options": [
{"value": "All present."},
{"value": "Student Name1"},
{"value": "Student Name2"},
{"value": "Student Name3"},
{"value": "Student Name4"}
]
},
"required": true}
}
},
"location": {"index": 0}
}},
{"createItem": {
"item": {
"title": "Notes?",
"questionItem": {"question": {"textQuestion": {"paragraph": true}}}},
"location": {"index": 1}
}}
]
}
This is the create CSV file with the compressed form creation request JSON. Each row specifies:
User
- The form ownername
- The form file nametitle
anddescription
- The form title and descriptionJSON
- The compressed JSON requests
If you are using a local CSV file, surround the JSON data with single quotes '
;
do not use the quotes if you are using a Google Sheet.
User,name,title,description,JSON
attendance@domain.com,MathClassAttendance,Math Class Attendance,Daily Attendance Report,'{"requests": [{"deleteItem": {"location": {"index": 0}}}, {"createItem": {"item": {"title": "Absent?", "description": "To report attendance adjustments for late arrivals, please email attendance@domain.com.", "questionItem": {"question": {"choiceQuestion": {"type": "CHECKBOX","options": [{"value": "All present."}, {"value": "Student Name1"}, {"value": "Student Name2"}, {"value": "Student Name3"}, {"value": "Student Name4"}]}, "required": true}}}, "location": {"index": 0}}}, {"createItem": {"item": {"title": "Notes?", "questionItem": {"question": {"textQuestion": {"paragraph": true}}}}, "location": {"index": 1}}}]}'
Build the forms; this example builds the forms in the User's
root folder, adjust as required.
If you are using a local CSV file, use the quotechar "'"
option;
do not use the option if you are using a Google Sheet.
$ gam redirect csv ./UpdateForms.csv multiprocess redirect stdout ./CreateForms.txt multiprocess redirect stderr stdout csv CreateForms.csv quotechar "'" gam user "~User" create form drivefilename "~name" parentid root title "~title" description "~description" json "~JSON" csv
2025-01-05T09:36:18.723-08:00,0/1,Using 1 process...
2025-01-05T09:36:18.724-08:00,0,Processing item 1/1
2025-01-05T09:36:23.818-08:00,0/1,Processing complete
This is the output
$ more UpdateForms.csv
User,formId,name,title,responderUri
attendance@domain.com,1xWfG_7sDCgrWDd-oqDCGE328-CozoAmqYMtP3WY2liw,MathClassAttendance,Math Class Attendance,https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYqOI2A4TBFVC4YwSxES6-lOD3O_jrN4vhkX09wXkNk0Z66w/viewform
Update
This is the form update request JSON; the data is similar to the form create JSON.
The deleteItem
request is deleted, createItem
is replaced with updateItem
, the updateMask
key and value are added to each update item. You would typically add, delete or update the Student Name
values.
{
"requests": [
{"updateItem": {
"item": {
"title": "Absent?",
"description": "To report attendance adjustments for late arrivals, please email attendance@domain.com.",
"questionItem": {
"question": {
"choiceQuestion": {
"type": "CHECKBOX","options": [
{"value": "All present."},
{"value": "Student Name1"},
{"value": "Student Name2"},
{"value": "Student Name3"},
{"value": "Student Name4"},
{"value": "Student Name5"}
]
},
"required": true}
}
},
"location": {"index": 0},
"updateMask": "title,description,questionItem"}},
{"updateItem": {
"item": {
"title": "Notes?",
"questionItem": {"question": {"textQuestion": {"paragraph": true}}}},
"location": {"index": 1},
"updateMask": "title,questionItem"}}
]
}
This is the update CSV file with the compressed form update request JSON. Each row specifies:
User
- The form ownername
- The form file nametitle
anddescription
- The form title and descriptionupdate
- Can be used to update selected rowsJSON
- The compressed JSON requests
If you are using a local CSV file, surround the JSON data with single quotes '
;
do not use the quotes if you are using a Google Sheet.
User,formId,name,title,update,JSON
attendance@domain.com,1xWfG_7sDCgrWDd-oqDCGE328-CozoAmqYMtP3WY2liw,MathClassAttendance,Math Class Attendance,,'{"requests": [{"updateItem": {"item": {"title": "Absent?", "description": "To report attendance adjustments for late arrivals, please email attendance@domain.com.", "questionItem": {"question": {"choiceQuestion": {"type": "CHECKBOX","options": [{"value": "All present."}, {"value": "Student Name1"}, {"value": "Student Name2"}, {"value": "Student Name3"}, {"value": "Student Name4"}, {"value": "Student Name5"}]}, "required": true}}}, "location": {"index": 0}, "updateMask": "title,description,questionItem"}}, {"updateItem": {"item": {"title": "Notes?", "questionItem": {"question": {"textQuestion": {"paragraph": true}}}}, "location": {"index": 1}, "updateMask": "title,questionItem"}}]} '
Update all of the forms.
If you are using a local CSV file, use the quotechar "'"
option;
do not use the option if you are using a Google Sheet.
$ gam redirect stdout ./UpdateForms.txt multiprocess redirect stderr stdout csv UpdateForms.csv quotechar "'" gam user "~User" update form "~formId" json "~JSON"
2025-01-05T10:07:00.037-08:00,0/1,Using 1 process...
2025-01-05T10:07:00.037-08:00,0,Processing item 1/1
2025-01-05T10:07:03.110-08:00,0/1,Processing complete
Update selected forms; put an x
in the update
column of the rows to be updated.
$ gam config csv_input_row_filter "update:text=x' redirect stdout ./UpdateForms.txt multiprocess redirect stderr stdout csv UpdateForms.csv quotechar "'" gam user "~User" update form "~formId" json "~JSON"
2025-01-05T10:07:00.037-08:00,0/1,Using 1 process...
2025-01-05T10:07:00.037-08:00,0,Processing item 1/1
2025-01-05T10:07:03.110-08:00,0/1,Processing complete
This is the output.
$ more UpdateForms.txt
User: attendance@domain.com, Update 1 Form
User: attendance@domain.com, Form: 1xWfG_7sDCgrWDd-oqDCGE328-CozoAmqYMtP3WY2liw, Updated
Display Forms
Select forms with <DriveFileEntity>
:
<DriveFileID>
- Display responses for a specific formmy_forms
- Display responses for all forms owned by the user
gam <UserTypeEntity> show forms <DriveFileEntity>
[formatjson]
By default, Gam displays the information as an indented list of keys and values.
formatjson
- Display the form in JSON format
gam <UserTypeEntity> print forms <DriveFileEntity> [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*]
(addcsvdata <FieldName> <String>)*
[formatjson [quotechar <Character>]]
addcsvdata <FieldName> <String>
- Add additional columns of data from the command line to the output
By default, when writing CSV files, Gam uses a quote character of double quote "
. The quote character is used to enclose columns that contain
the quote character itself, the column delimiter (comma by default) and new-line characters. Any quote characters within the column are doubled.
When using the formatjson
option, double quotes are used extensively in the data resulting in hard to read/process output.
The quotechar <Character>
option allows you to choose an alternate quote character, single quote for instance, that makes for readable/processable output.
quotechar
defaults to gam.cfg/csv_output_quote_char
. When uploading CSV files to Google, double quote "
should be used.
Display Form Responses
Select forms with <DriveFileEntity>
:
<DriveFileID>
- Display responses for a specific formmy_forms
- Display responses for all forms owned by the user
gam <UserTypeEntity> show formresponses <DriveFileEntity>
[filtertime.* <Time>] [filter <String>]
[countsonly|formatjson]
By default, GAM displays form response details, use the countsonly
option to get the number of responses but no response details.
By default, GAM displays all form responses, you can filter by response time:
timestamp > <Time>
- Display all form responses submitted after<Time>
timestamp >= <Time>
- Display all form responses submitted at or after<Time>
For example, to get the form responses submitted since the beginning of the year:
filter timestamp >= 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z
Use the filtertime.* <Time>
option to allow times, usually relative, to be substituted into the filter <String>
option.
The characters following filtertime
can be any combination of lowercase letters and numbers.
For example, to get the responses subnitted in the last four hours:
filtertime4h -4h filter "timestamp >= #filtertime4h#
By default, Gam displays the information as an indented list of keys and values.
formatjson
- Display the form response in JSON format
gam <UserTypeEntity> print formresponses <DriveFileEntity> [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*]
(addcsvdata <FieldName> <String>)*
[filtertime.* <Time>] [filter <String>]
[countsonly|(formatjson [quotechar <Character>])]
By default, GAM displays form response details, use the countsonly
option to get the number of responses but no response details.
addcsvdata <FieldName> <String>
- Add additional columns of data from the command line to the output
By default, GAM displays all form responses, you can filter by response time:
timestamp > <Time>
- Display all form responses submitted after<Time>
timestamp >= <Time>
- Display all form responses submitted at or after<Time>
For example, to get the form responses submitted since the beginning of the year:
filter timestamp >= 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z
Use the filtertime.* <Time>
option to allow times, usually relative, to be substituted into the filter <String>
option.
The characters following filtertime
can be any combination of lowercase letters and numbers.
For example, to get the responses subnitted in the last four hours:
filtertime4h -4h filter "timestamp >= #filtertime4h#
By default, when writing CSV files, Gam uses a quote character of double quote "
. The quote character is used to enclose columns that contain
the quote character itself, the column delimiter (comma by default) and new-line characters. Any quote characters within the column are doubled.
When using the formatjson
option, double quotes are used extensively in the data resulting in hard to read/process output.
The quotechar <Character>
option allows you to choose an alternate quote character, single quote for instance, that makes for readable/processable output.
quotechar
defaults to gam.cfg/csv_output_quote_char
. When uploading CSV files to Google, double quote "
should be used.
Combine Form Information
Combine form information from several GAM commands.
# Get form Id and createdTime
gam redirect csv ./forms.csv user user@domain.com print filelist showmimetype gform fields id,name,createdtime
# Get number of responses, add createdTime
gam redirect csv ./formsresponses.csv multiprocess csv forms.csv gam user "~Owner" print formresponses "~id" countsonly addcsvdata createdTime "~createdTime"
# Get full form info, add createdTime and responses (count)
gam redirect csv ./formsinfo.csv multiprocess csv formsresponses.csv gam user "~User" print forms "~formId" addcsvdata createdTime "~createdTime" addcsvdata responses "~responses"