Embed a list of forms in Google Site per DocList

Question

I used the code given in Embedding Google DocList in a Google Site to embed a list of files (taken from a folder in Google drive) in a page of Google Sites. I like to know, if there's a way to modify the links on the output-page, so that they direct to the live-form of the spreadsheet and not to the spreadsheet-mode as it's set in the script.

Answer 1

EDIT : sorry about that, forget this first answer as there is actually a method to get form urls !!

here is how it works

function myFunction() {
  var ss=SpreadsheetApp.getActive()
  var formurl = ss.getFormUrl()
  Browser.msgBox(formurl)
}

so it would be quite easy to embed a list in a site page,

here is a small code that does the job, online version here (needs authorization) be patient : can be slow to show up...

function doGet() {
  var app=UiApp.createApplication().setTitle('Available Forms').setStyleAttribute('padding', '25');
  var user = Session.getEffectiveUser().getUserLoginId();
  app.add(app.createLabel('Available forms in Drive for '+user).setStyleAttribute('background', '#dddd33').setPixelSize(500, 18).setHorizontalAlignment(UiApp.HorizontalAlignment.CENTER).setStyleAttribute('fontWeight', 'bold'))
  var flex=app.createFlexTable().setId('flex').setWidth('500').setBorderWidth(1).setCellPadding(2).setStyleAttribute('borderColor', '#dddd33');
  var index = 0
  var docs = DocsList.getAllFiles()
    for (var n in docs){
      if(docs[n].getFileType()=="spreadsheet"){
        var ss=SpreadsheetApp.openById(docs[n].getId())
         if(ss.getFormUrl()){
    flex.setText(index, 0, docs[n].getName())
    flex.setWidget(index, 1, app.createAnchor('open form', ss.getFormUrl()))
    ++ index
  }
  }
  }
  app.add(flex)
  return app
}

again sorry that I forgot this feature.

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-Forms are embedded in spreadsheet and don't appear as individual entities in your drive. Their ID (or URL) are not available from apps-script.... I'm afraid you'll have to encode the URLs manually.-

Answer 2

You could create a Document and name it the title of your Google Form. Stick the URL of the form inside the doc.