I've used this technique but I've found it limiting. I can and have
used a form to create new entries that then populate an exhibit.
However, I often find that I need to add some *computed* column to the
raw data coming in (e.g. geocode an address). The obvious way to do
this would be do fill the whole column with the desired function,
leading to a new value being calculated when the form adds data to a new
row. Unfortunately, when google forms adds a new row it is truly
new---it creates an entirely new row, which does *not* contain my
function in the column that I filled. I've never found a way around this.
On 7/11/2013 10:59 PM, George Adams wrote:
I did something like this 4 years ago. A Google form that populates a
Google spreadsheet. The spreadsheet has a script to look up geocodes
and based on the address adds a pin to a map of local businesses. It
uses a very old version of Exhibit
http://www.hayriverti.org/local-directory-map
It doesn't always load on the first try so if the map doesn't show try
reloading the page.
Sign up form is here.
http://www.hayriverti.org/local-directory-map/directory-sign-up-2
Since the site is a Google Sites web site I also needed to create a
custom widget and embed the Exhibit code in that.
George Adams
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Matt Denman
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
I am doing something similar with WordPress and Gravity forms
(http://www.gravityforms.com/). I am working on a plugin for
wordpress that will let you embed a timeline into a wordpress page
and then configure it to use content from the form responses and
posts in the site. This way the data stays with me on my server.
On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 10:39:14 AM UTC-4, Andrew Taylor wrote:
Hi all,
For some time I've been experimenting with using Google Docs
forms to generate data for spreadsheets . I have used one in
the past to get students to create metadata for their art
images (similar to crowd-sourcing already), and for the past
through years have used a form to keep a log of what I
accomplish at my job.
Point is, I rant through the tutorial for creating a timeline
that references a spreadsheet. I created a timeline for an
early Jazz band, then was thinking that I might try to start a
crowd-sourced project to build a timeline for the 20s
recordings by jazz bands.
I have a decent source for data in the Red Hot Jazz Archive
(redhotjazz.com <http://redhotjazz.com>, an old-school
non-database website) and a discussion group of aficionados
who might participate (many of them older and perhaps having
limited tech experience).
Have any of you used Google Forms as an interface to enter
timeline data?
Regards,
Andrew Taylor
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