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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If you edit a published form, the builder shows that the live version is out of date — click Republish to push your changes.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.

<iframe src="https://forms.automette.com/abc123/embed"
        style="width:100%;border:0" height="600"></iframe>

Sizing it automatically

A fixed height is a guess: too short and the form scrolls inside your page, leaving two scrollbars; too tall and a short form sits in dead space. Multi-page forms change height as people move through them.

The embed reports its own height to your page, so you can resize the iframe as it changes:

<iframe id="automette-form"
        src="https://forms.automette.com/abc123/embed"
        style="width:100%;border:0" height="600"></iframe>

<script>
  window.addEventListener("message", (event) => {
    if (event.data?.type !== "automette:height") return
    document.getElementById("automette-form").height = event.data.height
  })
</script>

The message fires on load, whenever the form's height changes, and after submission. It carries nothing but the height. If you host several embeds, check event.source against the iframe's contentWindow to tell them apart.

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.

Password protection and embedding are mutually exclusive: while a password is set, the embed URL returns 404, because the gate only exists on the form's own page. Share the public link instead.

Integrations can set one too — see password in the Forms API. It takes effect immediately, with no republish.

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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Publishing a form