Getting Started
Form Limiter Live caps the number of responses your Google Form takes and publishes the form at a live link, where that cap holds even when everyone submits at the same moment. This guide takes you from install to a working live form.
If you have not read what a live form is, start there. It explains what moves and what stays the same.
Installation
- Google Workspace Marketplace from the Google Workspace Marketplace
- Click Install and follow the prompts
- Grant the permissions it asks for
Connect your Google account, once
The live form has to read your questions and choices to mirror them, so the first time you open the sidebar it asks you to connect your Google account at skyfield.cloud.
- Open any Google Form
- Click the Add-ons (puzzle piece) icon, then Form Limiter Live, then Start
- The sidebar shows One step left to go live. Click Connect Google account
- Sign in with the account that owns the form and approve access
- Come back to the form and open the sidebar again
This is a one-time step for your account, not per form. Until it is done, nothing can sync.
Set the response cap
- On the Form tab, click Live form settings
- On the Respondents tab, turn on Limit total responses
- Enter a number under Stop accepting responses after
- Optionally, write a Message once the limit is reached
The change saves as you make it. Back in the sidebar, the Live form settings row reads Stops at 100, and the sidebar confirms Limits are live once the cap has reached the live form. If it instead says Limits not live yet, your settings are saved but not yet being enforced. See Sync and connection errors.
See Total response limit for what respondents see at the cap.
Cap individual choices, if you need to
A cap on the form is one number. If a question's options are scarce too, workshop sessions or time slots for example, give each one its own number of places on the Questions tab. See Per-choice limits.
Close the original and share the live link
The first time a save makes your form enforceable, the add-on asks whether to close the original Google Form. Answers sent through the original Google Forms link are not counted, so closing it is the recommended choice. Respondents who open the old link are pointed at the live one.
Then, on the Form tab, click Share link and copy the live link or download its QR code. That link is what you hand out.
Check the live form's other settings
The live form starts with sensible defaults: anyone with the link can respond, remaining spots are shown, and there is no opening or closing date. Everything about that is yours to change under Live form settings on the Form tab. See Live form settings.