There are form specific things which are inaccessible anywhere in the SS API. For one thing it give me more flexibility in validating responses.
I would really REALLY like to be able to decouple the form from the spreadsheet entirely. I would then be able to have Production and Development version of the questions, and likewise with the responses. On Apr 27, 9:31 am, David Bullock <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Numan, > > I suspect that in fact the lately-deprecated 'Tables API' was the intended > solution for accessing form-like data. > > Have you investigated the List > API?http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/data/3.0/developers_guide_pr... > > The List API does just about everything you'd like, except allow your code > to address columns by a fixed, application-defined name. Shortly before its > untimely demise, the Tables API lost that capability too - largely so that > it could exhibit the forms-friendly behaviour of making the column-name > follow the value of the 'header cell' for the column. > > cheers, > David. > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:34 AM, numan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Forms API would greatly enhance the capabilities of spreadhseet API esp for > > education. It is a well known feature request from developers. > > > Is there any plan to offer this? Is it being worked on internally at > > Google? Can the google developers please shed some light on this. > >
