What Is a Live Form?

Choice Eliminator Live publishes a copy of your form at a Skyfield link, the live form. Respondents fill in that link instead of the Google Forms link. You keep building and editing the form in Google Forms exactly as before; open the sidebar or press Sync now and your questions and choices are copied across.

Why a live form exists

Add-ons that work on a native Google Form, Choice Eliminator included, enforce limits from a trigger that Google runs after a response is already recorded. That usually takes seconds, but inside that window two people can still take the same last spot.

On a live form there is no window. Each submission claims its spots in a single all-or-nothing step at the moment it is submitted. The submission that arrives second is told the choice is full, and everyone with the form open sees the remaining spots count down live. A choice cannot be over-booked, no matter how many people press submit at the same moment.

What respondents see

The live link does more than mirror your form:

• Spots left, live. Every choice with a limit shows how many spots remain, for example "3 left" or "Full". The counts update as other people submit, with no page refresh, and the badge becomes more prominent when only a few spots are left.
• Full choices close for everyone at once. The moment a choice reaches its limit it is marked full on every open page at the same instant, not on the next person's page load.
• Multi-page forms render as pages. Sections from your Google Form become pages, "go to section based on answer" routing on choices is respected, and a straight-through form shows respondents how far along they are.
• Their language and their device. The live form follows the respondent's language and works on a phone as well as a desktop.

What changes when you go live

• You share a different link. Respondents answer at the live link. The add-on shows it in the sidebar, ready to copy or hand out as a QR code.
• The add-on offers to close the original Google Form. Responses submitted through the original Google Forms link are not limited, so leaving it open would let people around your caps. When your first limit goes live, the add-on asks once whether to close the original; the closed form points respondents at the live link. You can decline, and the add-on reopens a form it closed when you reset or uninstall it.
• The live form has its own settings. Who can respond, what the page looks like, an opening and closing window, email notifications and a Google Sheet copy of the responses are all set in Live form settings, separately from your Google Form's own settings.
• Your form's structure is stored on Skyfield's servers. The questions, choices and limits of the live form live with us so the link can enforce them. What is stored and for how long is described in the privacy policy, and you can ask us to delete a live form and its responses at any time.
• Responses live with the live form. You can view and export them as CSV from your live forms on skyfield.cloud, or have them copied to a Google Sheet. Access to your responses stays open permanently, including after your plan ends.

When you should not use it

Most forms do not need a live form. If your choices are not scarce, or a spot being taken twice on a slow day is an inconvenience rather than a problem, a native Google Form with Choice Eliminator is simpler: respondents stay on the Google Forms link they know, and nothing about your form moves.

A live form earns its place when simultaneous submissions genuinely compete for the same scarce spots: workshop seats that fill in minutes, time slots opened at a fixed hour, anything where "the last one" matters and everyone arrives at once.

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