Publishing a form
A form isn't live until you publish it. In the builder, click Publish. Publishing creates a new version and makes the public URL active; the draft you've been editing stays separate until you publish again, so work in progress is never exposed.
If you edit a published form, the builder shows that the live version is out of date — click Republish to push your changes.
The public link
Every form has a public URL you can share directly — in an email, a message, or a QR code. Anyone with the link can open the form and submit; they don't need an Automette account.
Copy the link from the builder header once the form is published.
Embedding
To put the form inside your own website, use the embed version of the URL. It renders the same form without the surrounding page chrome, so it sits cleanly in an <iframe> on your site. Branding from the Design tab carries through.
Controlling who can submit
These options live in the Settings tab.
Password protection
Set a password and visitors must enter it before they can see the form. Useful for a form you only want to share with a specific group.
Limits
- Close on date — after this date, the form stops accepting responses.
- Max responses — cap how many submissions the form will take; once the cap is reached, the form closes automatically.
Options
Under Settings → Options:
- Spam protection — an invisible challenge that blocks automated submissions. There's nothing for a real respondent to solve.
- Progress bar — shown on multi-page forms so people can see how far they are.
After a submission
Also in Settings → After submit, choose what the respondent sees once they've submitted:
- Show a thank-you message — a custom message on the page.
- Redirect to a URL — send them to a page of your own.
- Deliver the generated document — show or download the PDF the submission produced. Only relevant when the form generates a document.
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