How to embed a Google Form in your guide
Drop a Google Form into any section of your Touch Stay guidebook to capure data, offer services and upsell to your guests.
Table of contents:
- Video: How to add a Google Form to your Touch Stay guidebook
- Step by step: How to add a Google Form to your Touch Stayguidebook
- Trouble Shooting FAQs
Video: How to add a Google Form to your Touch Stay guidebook
Step by step: How to add a Google Form to your Touch Stay guidebook
Go to Settings > Custom elements and click 'New custom element'
Select Google Form as the 'Third party service'. An 'Element code name' will be generated. This is the code that you will insert in your guide where you want the Google Form to show. You can change the name to whatever you wish to make it easier to identify each custom element you add. Only letters, numbers underscores or hyphens can be used - no special characters or spaces.
Next, paste in your Google Form link. This can be found under the "Send" options in your Google Form account.
Go to the link tab and use the 'Copy' option.
Then, paste this link into the 'Google Form' link box in Touch Stay. Click 'Save'.
To insert the Google Form into your guide, go to Content Hub and open the topic you want to add your Google Form to. Put your cursor where you want the Google Form to appear. Click 'Custom element' in the toolbar, select the relevant Google Form custom element code name from the dropdown and click 'Insert'.
This will place your custom element field code into your topic content and when you preview the guide it will be replaced by your chosen form.
Note: file uploads in Google Forms are not supported as this requires the user to be logged in. If you require an upload option in your form (for the person completing the form to upload a document within the form) we recommend using JotForm instead.
Trouble Shooting FAQs
My link isn't being accepted when creating my custom element, what should I do?
If your link isn't being accepted then the most likely reason is that it's the wrong link option. Google Form offers a few different sharing options and we need the most basic share link to your form as shown in the screenshots above. Double check you are using the basic direct link for your form. If this still doesn't work, or you can't find it in your Google Forms account, then please contact support and send us a screenshot of the Google Form share options that are available to you.
My form doesn't display fully or has lots of empty space beneath it, what should I do?
The Google Form will be added to your guide using what's known in web development as an iframe. This technique creates a window in your guide to the Google Form. However, the window isn't able to detect the size of the source Google Form and you may wish to adjust the height of the window to better match your form. This can be done by editing the custom element from the Custom Elements tab of the Settings page. Use the 3 dots menu and select 'View/Edit', then adjust the 'Standard element heigh't value accordingly. You may find it useful to have your guide preview open in a separate tab so you can refresh the page after changing the height in case it needs further adjustment.
Can I have a different variation of the form for each of my guides?
Yes, you can set a different value for the link for each guide. This could be useful if you have a Jotform with parameters to pre-fill values such as your property name or id. Go to Guides. Click on the name of the guide you want to add a custom element to.
Scroll down to the bottom of the Guide details page and click 'Edit' next to the 'Guide custom elements' section. Paste the link to your custom element in the relevant custom element box and adjust the element height as needed. This will adjust the custom element for this guide only - Note this option is only available if you have more than 1 guide in your account.