Find out about the latest releases of Form Publisher in 2021!

December 22nd

Improvement

Special characters are now supported in markers. For example, you can have form questions, such as Student's name, and then successfully use the marker <<Student's name>> in the template.

 

Bug fix

Previously, the increment for the generated documents was not reset back to 1 after resetting Form Publisher for Google Sheets. For example, if you reset the settings after having generated 55 documents, the increment for the next documents you generated from Google Sheets would start at 56. This issue is now resolved.

December 6th

Bug fix

Previously, if an approver requested additional information, that approver could not Approve, Reject, or make another request for more information until the respondent edited their response. We are happy to report that is an issue we have now resolved.

November 10th

Improvement

We have released new email templates that now work with dark and light email themes.

November 3rd

Bug fix

• We fixed an issue for the Form Publisher for Google Sheets add-on which prevented you from selecting a new template document.
• We resolved an issue in Form Publisher for Google Sheets where the date in the generated documents did not match the format applied to the date value in the Responses spreadsheet.

October 27th

Announcement

We are happy to announce that the new Form Publisher web app has been launched! 🎉

• This new version is more stable and provides better performance
• The data can be filtered (by search bar and period of time), sorted, and exported to CSV
• The new web app is responsive
  

September 23rd

Bug fix

We have fixed an issue where the date formats were changing back to the default one after a Google form submission was approved or rejected.

September 16th

Bug fix

We resolved an issue which was causing delays in how quickly the [Form Publisher] Approval status column was updated in the Responses Google sheet after an approver accepted or rejected the generated document.

September 7th

Announcement

The new Talarian website has been launched. 🎉

As the company behind Form Publisher, YAMM, Awesome Table, and Invoice to Sheet, Talarian is now also featured in the Form Publisher website.

Bug fix

We fixed an issue for the Form Publisher for Google sheet add-on which prevented you from customizing the file naming convention using markers corresponding to your column headers in your Google sheet.

 

September 2nd

Bug fix

While using the custom destination rule option, we noticed that if your Google form contains a long question title which was displayed on multiple lines, the field where you can input the value of your condition is not clickable. We are happy to say that this is now resolved.

August 17th

Add-on

In this release, the form name and form link are removed from the notification emails about file generation, approval workflow, bulk file generation.

August 16th

Improvement

Introducing our new email templates! Your recipients will now see emails with a refreshed design, including a new button that opens the generated file.

August 11th

Bug fix

• Form Publisher for Google Sheets: We resolved several issues related to the mass generation of documents using Google Slides templates.
• If you configured dynamic subfolders for a question title which contains special characters (such as a question mark, and others), the names of the dynamic subfolders were incorrect. This issue is now resolved and subfolders are now correctly named as the answers to the configured question.

July 21st

Bug fix

Form Publisher did not automatically open the Google (Drive) Picker window to prompt you to select a new valid template document in several cases in which it recognized that the currently configured template is not valid (such as changed owners or permissions in the sharing options of the template). As a result, Form Publisher prevented you from changing to a valid template and from generating documents from new form submissions. We're glad to report that this is now resolved and Form Publisher will always prompt you to replace a no longer valid template.

July 14th

Announcement

• We are happy to announce that we have released the new Custom destination rules feature in the Form Publisher add-on for Google Forms. 🎉  This feature is available under the Destination folder menu.
  
  What does it mean?
  • You can now create custom destination rules, with two-levels of destination folders
  • You can route a document to a folder and/or a subfolder based on response markers
  • Destination rules is editable at any time, and all future files are routed according to new the rules you define

July 12th

Bug fix

• We have fixed an issue where new users added to a domain with a domain based plan would receive a “Email of undefined” message.

July 6th

Bug fixes

• With this release, we are addressing a wide range of error messages that appeared while using the Form Publisher add-on for Google Sheets:
  • If a Microsoft document is selected as a template, a message now lets you know that only Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides are supported. A new button to select another template has been added.
    
  • Added 30+ new language translations for the error messages handling.
  • Did you see the error message “Something went wrong when executing the add-on” after defining the file naming convention? We noticed that too and have now resolved it.

• We resolved the issue where Form Publisher for Google Sheets suddenly stopped after generating a large number of files.

• We fixed an issue with markers added in table cells in Google Slides templates. The markers were not being found and were listed as missing in the generated document.

• We fixed an issue that now prevents Form Publisher from adding an additional dash (-) when using checkbox questions, regardless of the selected separator for slides templates.

June 23rd

Announcement

• The new marketing website has been launched.  🎉
  
  

• Form Publisher web app can now be accessed via https://app.form-publisher.com.

Improvement

• The Form Publisher web app now has a cancel auto renewal button for PayPal users.
  
  

Add-on

• The Form Publisher add-on now displays the source of the subscription (Paypal or Stripe) and the Manage Subscription button.
  
  The button is not displayed if the user is under a domain plan and is not the person who purchased it.
  
  
  
  
• An Upgrade button redirects to the pricing page if the user is under a free plan.

June 15th

Bug fix

• We fixed an issue when personalized emails were giving an [object, Object] value instead of the submitted response.
• We fixed an issue where the users were receiving a "Something went wrong" message when opening the Form Publisher for Google Sheet add-on.
• If you experienced the error message "Something went wrong" while trying to generate files with no empty columns in your Google sheet, this is no longer the case.

 

June 9th

Bug fix

Duplicate questions are now better handled.

May 27th

Improvement

 

• Non-Gmail recipients now receive working view/comment/edit links to the generated Google docs. Previously, they always received a generated PDF file as an attachment.
  

 

Bug fix

 

With this release we are addressing a wide range of errors that appeared while using Form Publisher. Check the list below.

• Several errors appeared when you tried adding new emails as recipients in the Sharing options and notifications tab. These errors are now resolved.
• If Form Publisher keeps showing an error that you need to authenticate for a certain action, you can work around this by logging in to your Google account using Incognito mode in Google Chrome.

 

May 25th

Bug fix

 

• The <<Workflow date>> marker is now back to correctly showing the date and time of the approval or rejection of the generated document and not the date and time of when the document was generated.

April 21st

When adding links to documents, Form Publisher now always uses a semicolon (;) to separate the arguments in the HYPERLINK() function. This helps to prevent error values in sheets configured with France or Italy as a locale, in which the comma (,) is not accepted as argument separator in functions.

March 29th

Add-on

• From the new Form Publisher add-on for Google Sheets, you can now access the Help Center and the Contact Form.

Bug fix

• We noticed that if your generated document contained a long URL which was displayed on multiple lines, the PDF viewers couldn't detect it and only one segment of the url was clickable. We are happy to say that this is no longer the case.
• You can enable the "Edit after submit" option in the "Sharing options and Notifications" sidebar even if you are using an additional template. It will now be successfully generated!

March 22nd

Bug fix

• Did you see the error message “Something went wrong when executing the add-on” after you click Select output file formats in Form Publisher for Google Sheets. We noticed that too and have now resolved it.
• Form Publisher in Google Forms started to generate Google Docs templates which no longer included the marker name before the actual marker. For example, if you were used to seeing Venue Name: <<Venue Name>> in the generated Google Docs template, the issue was that now only <<Venue Name>> would appear. We’re glad to share that Form Publisher again adds the marker name.
• When files regeneration is triggered after an edited form response, Form Publisher is back to correctly saving the regenerated files in the configured folder instead of in the root (top-level) folder of your Google Drive, which was incorrect.

March 16th

Bug fix

• A recipient did not receive a notification if you switch their document type to one that is not configured for any of the other recipients. For example, a single recipient did not receive a PDF file if PDF is not configured for any of the other recipients. This issue is now resolved.
• We also resolved the issue of form respondents not receiving a document type which was not configured for any of the other recipients.

March 15th

Bug fix

The issue with new users with approval workflow signatures for whom the form response was not being updated in the spreadsheet is now resolved

 

March 8th

Bug fix

• We fixed the annoying issue of Form Publisher not saving your selection in the Insert as image check box after closing or minimizing the Form Publisher add-on
• Fixed the file generation issues for forms the questions of which contain special characters ([, ], #, %, $, .) which were also configured with enabled Edit after submit option

March 2nd

Improvement

File names of generated documents are now also updated for forms with Edit after submit enabled

Bug fix

We've resolved Form Publisher issues related to approval emails not being sent out

March 1st

Bug fix

• If you add to your sharing list the email address of the approver of the submission, you will now correctly receive the approval notification email. 
• We resolved the issue of the Edit response URL column not being at all updated in the spreadsheet after a form submission

 

February 25th

We are happy to announce that Form Publisher is now also available in Google Sheets! 🎉

What does it mean? You can now mass generate multiple customized documents at once based on predesigned templates using existing data in a spreadsheet. The Form Publisher add-on is available on the Google Workspace Marketplace.

 

February 24th

Bug fix

• We fixed an issue with Google Docs templates containing incomplete or partial tables Generating documents no longer breaks because of this issue.
• Form Publisher now separates links in the generated template when multiple files are uploaded under the “File Upload” question.

February 17th

Bug fix

Annoyed by those validation comments not appearing in the spreadsheet? We put an end to this long-standing issue.

February 16th

Bug fix

If user notifications broke for you, the culprit might be form replies which contain HTML tags and markup in some of the form fields. This issue is now resolved.

February 15th

Improvement

We’re happy to share that Form Publisher now runs on the Google V8 JavaScript runtime. With this, we are ensuring that the infrastructure has greater stability and performance, which will also enable us to develop many of the new features we have planned. Stay tuned!

February 9th

Bug fix

We resolved several issues which broke the regeneration of files in Form Publisher.