How can form respondents approve or reject their own submissions?

When you enable the Approval Workflow option, you want your recipients to receive an email notification after their form submissions. This article will explain how a form respondent can approve or reject a request.

1. Configure your settings

First, open your settings from your Google Form.

Then, make sure ‘Collect email addresses’ option is NOT selected. Finally, click ‘SAVE’:

2. Configure your Google Form

From your Google Form, add the question ‘Email address’:

If you want your ‘Email address’ question to be required, then select ‘Required’:

We suggest you to restrict the answer to the format 'email address' only. To do so, click on the following menu:

Then, click 'Response validation':

Finally, choose 'Text' and 'Email address':

3. Configure Form Publisher

First, under the ‘Sharing options and notifications’ sidebar, enable ‘Approval Workflow’:

Then, add the <<Email address>> marker under ‘Add recipient’:

Finally, click ‘Save’:

Why can’t you select ‘Notify Form respondent’ option?

Form Publisher automatically unticked ‘Notify Form respondent’ option if both options are selected:

Form respondents can’t approve or reject a request if your Google Form automatically collects email addresses.