How to Embed a Google Form in your POI Description

Modified on Fri, 18 Oct at 5:47 PM

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Getting started: How to embed a Google Form in your POI Description

You can embed an existing Google Form directly within your POI [Point of Interest] in the ‘Description’ box. Please refer to article Adding Written Descriptions to a POI for full information on using the 'Description' box.

Embedded Google Forms can be viewed and filled in directly from within your POI. Here's an example:

Getting started: How to embed a Google Form in your POI Description

Step 1: Create your Google Form

Follow this link for info on how to Create your Google Form.

Step 2: Embed the Google Form that you have already created within a POI

Once you have created your Google Form, you can embed it in your POI
When editing your POI, click on the ‘Source’ button in the editing toolbar to access the source code within the ‘Description’ field
Add the code noted below:

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Replace the yellow highlighted part of the code above with the Embed URL by clicking Send from the Google form, then click the "<>" tab, then copy the embed URL:
Then, from the HTML code, copy the src URL (yellow below):
- <iframe src="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdWQQqMGQ8TCNpPcnlWMiwWNa52xvODb1pAY4De2uTpU7KGw/viewform?embedded=true" width="640" height="877" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading…</iframe>
Add/Update your POI to save your changes.

Step 3: Verify everything is set up properly

Once you have updated your POI, you will see the form embedded within your POI, and your visitors can enter and submit the form responses directly.
Note: Not all form features may not work properly when embedded in this way (which are embedded as HTML iframes). For example, Google Forms does not allow file upload fields inside embeddable forms.
Another issue to avoid is making sure that the 'Limit to one response' option is not turned on for the Google form. Is this is turned on, then the form will not work properly in Driftscape.