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.
>
>

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