Use form as single source of form data #381

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opened 2025-10-14 16:57:47 -06:00 by navan · 0 comments

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2025-10-14 16:57:47 -06:00

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Originally created by @martynhoyer on 1/22/2017

When I was working on https://github.com/dwyl/html-form-send-email-via-google-script-without-server/pull/74 I wanted to make sure you didn't need to update the script every time a new form field was added, because it felt quite frustrating to have to update the form, the add-to-spreadsheet and the format-to-email script. Hence why I added the looping in.

I was under the impression that if you added a new field to the form HTML, it'd automatically get piped in to the spreadsheet, but it seems this isn't the case.

I think it'd be quite nice if it did do that, meaning that once you've done the initial setup, you may never have to touch the script again, and can just edit the form HTML and the email/spreadsheet will send the new data if it exists. That'll make it less prone to error, and easier to manage.

Any thoughts?

*Originally created by @martynhoyer on 1/22/2017* When I was working on https://github.com/dwyl/html-form-send-email-via-google-script-without-server/pull/74 I wanted to make sure you didn't need to update the script every time a new form field was added, because it felt quite frustrating to have to update the form, the add-to-spreadsheet and the format-to-email script. Hence why I added the looping in. I was under the impression that if you added a new field to the form HTML, it'd automatically get piped in to the spreadsheet, but it seems this isn't the case. I think it'd be quite nice if it did do that, meaning that once you've done the initial setup, you may never have to touch the script again, and can just edit the form HTML and the email/spreadsheet will send the new data if it exists. That'll make it less prone to error, and easier to manage. Any thoughts?