Forms
Building a form
Fifteen question types, required fields, and a design panel that makes the page look like yours rather than like a form.
On this page
Open Forms from the app launcher and press New form. A form is a document in your workspace, like a doc or a sheet, so it belongs to the workspace you were in when you made it and everybody in that workspace can work on it. If Forms is not in your launcher, it has not been switched on for your account yet.
The sidebar has the whole of the app in it: Build for the questions, Design for how the page looks, Preview for what a respondent sees, and Responses once answers start arriving.
The question types#
| Type | What it gives the respondent |
|---|---|
| Short answer | One line of text |
| Long answer | A box for several lines |
| One line, checked for a valid address | |
| Phone | One line, checked for a valid number |
| Link | A web address, https only |
| Multiple choice | A list of options, pick one |
| Checkboxes | A list of options, pick any number |
| Dropdown | The same as multiple choice, in a compact menu |
| Yes / no | A single on and off switch |
| Number | Digits only, with an optional minimum and maximum |
| Date | A calendar picker |
| Time | A time of day |
| Rating | Stars, anywhere from 3 to 10 of them |
| Scale | A numbered scale with a caption at each end |
| File upload | Respondents attach files, up to 5 per question |
File upload is still rolling out. If the type is missing from the picker, it has not been switched on for your account yet.
Every question can be marked required, can carry a line of helper text under its label, and can have a photo above it. Text questions can also have a placeholder. A choice question with no options yet is never treated as required, so a half-built question can never make a published form impossible to submit.
The settings that change how it behaves#
Settings
All questions on one page, or one at a time.
Off keeps the link alive but refuses new answers.
- Accepting responses is the switch to reach for when you want answers to stop but the link to keep working. Somebody who opens it is told the form is not accepting responses right now.
- Ask for the respondent's name adds a name field at the top and a Name column in the response sheet. Turn it off and submissions arrive anonymous.
- Confirmation message is the sentence somebody sees after they press submit. Write the next step into it if there is one.
Making it look like yours#
The Design tab is a full theme editor, and the preview updates as you change it. Start from one of the ready-made looks and then change whatever you like: picking a look replaces your current design, so pick first and tune afterwards.
- Background: a flat colour, a gradient, a mesh, dots, a grid, lines, or a photo you can dim.
- Card: solid, glass, outline or none, with the corner radius, the shadow, an accent bar along the top or the left, and the column width.
- Colours and type: an accent used for buttons, stars and focused fields, text and muted text colours, a heading font and a body font, and the title size and weight.
- Answer fields: outlined, filled or just underlined, with their own corner radius.
- Submit button: solid, soft, outline or gradient, rounded, pill or sharp, your own label on it, full width or not.
- Header: a logo, which can be an uploaded photo or simply an emoji, aligned left or centred.
- Finishing touches: animate the fields in, show a progress bar, and a switch for the small "Made with Nemi Forms" line at the bottom.
Limits#
| Thing | Limit |
|---|---|
| Questions in one form | 30 |
| Options in a choice question | 20 |
| Characters in one answer | 2,000 |
| Files per file upload question | 5 |
| Forms you can keep as drafts | Unlimited |
How many forms may accept responses at the same time, and how many responses you may receive per month, depend on your plan. Both are in Sharing a form.
What to do next#
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Still stuck? Email support@nemilab.com and tell us what you were trying to do.