How to Embed a Google Form in your POI Description

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Getting started: How to embed a Google Form in your POI Description
  • Step 1: Create your Google Form
  • Step 2: Embed the Google Form that you have already created within a POI
  • Step 3: Verify everything is set up properly

You can embed an existing Google Form directly within your POI [Point of Interest] in the ‘Description’ box. Please refer to article Adding Written Descriptions to a POI for full information on using the 'Description' box. 

Embedded Google Forms can be viewed and filled in directly from within your POI.  Here's an example:

Getting started: How to embed a Google Form in your POI Description

Step 1: Create your Google Form

Follow this link for info on how to Create your Google Form. 

Step 2: Embed the Google Form that you have already created within a POI

• Once you have created your Google Form, you can embed it in your POI

• When editing your POI, click on the ‘Source’ button in the editing toolbar to access the source code within the ‘Description’ field

• Add the code noted below:

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<div class="dyn-content-link" data-dyn-content-url="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwEdWwJnyx6rWDqc7j45mliIcjH2XlL9NRQYXMeObHapul6g/viewform?usp=sf_link" style="height:1000px"></div>

• Replace the yellow highlighted part of the code above with the URL for your form, found here when viewing your form in browser:
  

• Add/Update your POI to save your changes.

Step 3: Verify everything is set up properly

• Once you have updated your POI, you will see the form embedded within your POI, and your visitors can enter and submit the form responses directly.

• Note: Not all form features may not work properly when embedded in this way (which are embedded as HTML iframes). For example, Google Forms does not allow file upload fields inside embeddable forms.