Collect responses with a public form
Create a public URL so anyone can respond without signing in, and review every response in one place.
Step 1 — add a form view
Open the database
Open the database that will receive the responses. If you created it from the event sign-up or feedback collection template, a form view is already there.
Create a form view
In the view tabs, click + View and choose Form from the list. The form view is created right away without asking for a name. A form view is required before you can create a public link.
Decide what the form says
Below Public submission link, the form view has its settings. Set the Title, Description, Submit button text, and Submission complete message, and to send people to another page after they submit, enter an address starting with http:// or https:// in Redirect URL (optional). In Field settings, choose Shown or Hidden and Required for each field. When you're done, click Save form settings.
Step 2 — create the public link
Open the form view
Click the form view tab. If you see "No public link yet.", click Create link.
Copy and share the link
Once issued, the address appears under Public submission link. Copy it with Copy, or use Preview the public form to check it in a new tab.
Issue a new link
If the old link leaked, click Reissue to get a new one. To take the link down for good, click Revoke.
Step 3 — responses and security
- Rate limit per IP — 5 per minute / 30 per hour / 100 per day
- Rate limit per token — 30 per minute / 200 per hour / 2000 per day
- Honeypot field — blocked when a bot fills it in automatically (invisible to people)
- Input sanitizing — 1000 characters of text, 500 for URLs, RFC validation for email, metacharacters blocked in phone numbers
- The same IP and browser can submit to the same form up to 20 times per minute
- Each accepted submission becomes a new record in the database, and fields that aren't on the form are left empty
- When the record count reaches the limit of the project owner's plan, the form stops accepting submissions (archived records aren't counted)
A public form is exposed to the outside, so automatic spam protection is always on.
Step 4 — manage responses
Open the responses page
Click View responses in the public link area of the form view to open the Form responses screen.
Filters and stats
Along with the total, today, and last-submission stats, use the date filter (All / Today / This week / This month) and Search IP. Responses show 50 per page; use Previous and Next to move through them.
Side panel
Click a row, or View details, and the panel on the right shows the response field by field. Delete response clears out spam (member permission or higher), and it also removes the record that response created.
CSV export
The CSV button in the header exports responses as a CSV file. The date and IP filters you've applied carry over, one export holds up to 5,000 responses, and the file opens in Excel without garbling non-English text.