Live forms
Your Google Form, published at a link Skyfield hosts. Limits hold the moment someone submits, a time limit is kept on the server, and the page can wear your look, on your own website if you like.
Try a live form
The real choice control respondents get, with a small crowd behind it. Pick a session and submit a few times.
Spring workshop sign-up
Pick one session. Seats are limited and go to whoever submits first.
Pick a look
Why a live form exists
A Google Forms add-on can only act after a response is recorded. In that window two people take the same last spot, a late answer still lands, and the form only ever looks like Google Forms. A live form owns the page: it claims the spot at the moment of submit, refuses a late answer, and renders your look.
What respondents see
Spots left on every capped choice, counting down as others submit. A clock, when there is a time limit. Your theme and brand color, on your own website when you embed it. A choice that fills is struck through or hidden on every open page at the same instant.
What changes when you go live
You share the live link instead of the Google Forms one, and the add-on offers to close the original so nobody goes around your caps. Responses land in your dashboard and, if you connect one, a Google Sheet. The form itself is still built and edited in Google Forms.
A Google Forms add-on and a live form, side by side
| Google Forms add-on | Live form | |
|---|---|---|
| Where respondents answer | In the Google Form | At a link Skyfield hosts |
| When a limit is checked | After the response is recorded | At the moment of submit, all or nothing |
| Spots left | Updated on the next page load | Count down live, no refresh |
| A full choice | Removed from the form | Struck through or hidden |
| When a choice fills | Closes on the next page load | Closes on every open page at once |
| A time limit | Honor system only | Kept on the server, late answers refused |
| How it looks | Google's theme | Your look and brand color, embeddable |
Add-ons that run on a live form
Each one runs on the live link, with your form still built and edited in Google Forms. Pick by the job: a limit that holds, a time limit, or your own look.
