With Form Publisher, you can share your generated documents with your recipients and send email notifications.

Prerequisites

You must have a Google form configured with Form Publisher.

Procedure

1. Open the Sharing options and notifications menu.
   
   
   By default, Form Publisher is configured to send a PDF to the owner of the form each time a response is submitted. If you don't want to be notified, click the bin icon to remove the email address.
   
   
   
   
2. Under Add recipient, add the email address of a recipient and select one of the options:
   1. Send PDF
      A PDF file is attached to the email after the response is submitted
   2. Send Microsoft document (Word, Excel or Powerpoint)
      A Word file is attached to the email after the response is submitted
   3. Can edit
      A sharing link to the Google document template is added to the email notification and the recipient can edit the generated template file
   4. Can view
      A sharing link to the Google document template is added to the email notification and the recipient can only view the generated template file.
      
      info  This option is not available for the owner of the template.
   5. Can comment
      A sharing link to the Google document template is added to the email notification and the recipient can leave comments in the generated template file
      
      info  This option is not available for the owner of the template
      
3. Click Add.
   
   
4. Click Save.
   

Result

After each form submission, the recipients receive an email notification with the generated file attached or a sharing link providing access to edit, view, or comment, depending on your configuration.

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