Nextcloud Forms is here to keep your surveys private

Originally published at: Nextcloud Forms is here to keep your surveys private - Nextcloud

Did you know a third of people who abandon a survey form do so because they worry about privacy and security? We understand, pretty much all those forms are hosted at Google or other, data-vacuuming services. Well, we have good news to you surveyors! You can use Nextcloud Forms as part of Nextcloud Hub.

With Nextcloud Forms, you can create as many forms, with as many questions, and shared with as many people as you like ā€“ without any limitations. You keep your form and the data you collect on Nextcloud. And you can easily analyze and share the results with pretty and insightful graphs.

Create secure forms and surveys

Similar to other solutions, this app makes it easy to create surveys for anything from market research or customer feedback to planning an office party. And with Nextcloud Forms, data remains secure on the Nextcloud server and the privacy of respondents is respected.

The Forms app lets you choose from a range of question types such as checkboxes, multiple choice, dropdowns, short answer and long text. That should cover most use cases and we are working on more question types!

Share forms with anyone

You can share your forms via a link to anyone, or even directly to specific users on your Nextcloud server or to the whole Nextcloud instance. For improved security it is possible to set an expiration date. There is no limitation on the amount of forms or questions you can create nor the links you can share or the number of people who can reply. Also important: Forms is responsive and will look good on any device or screen!

Visualize and export the results

Responses are visualized either as summary statistics with charts which make it easy to analyze the results. You can also see the individual responses if you need to dig deeper or have a small number of respondents.

You can export your forms in CSV. The format is also compatible with Google Forms so you can work with any tool or workflow designed for integration with the app.

We extensively use the Forms app for our user surveys and application forms and we would love to know what you think and we invite you to get involved to make Forms even better!

Add the Forms app to Nextcloud with just one click and get surveying!

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Thanks to all the devs involved for getting out this great improvement over the previous release!

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I tried it and thank you, it works very good!

Did you know a third of people who abandon a survey form do so because they worry about privacy and security?

Source please? Not that I disbelieve, it would just be helpful to have it in my daily work.

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Thank you, the forms are better. Do you plan to be able to attach files?

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Welcome the the Nextcloud Community!

That feature is scheduled for Version 2.1.

Thanks you devs of forms. Version 2 ist so much better that Version 1 :+1:

Link is in the press-release in the bottom-section:

Forms 2.0 is much better than 1.x. Love how responsive and clean it looks.

I would love to have the ability to send a customized email in response to completing a form. That will allow me to use it to register people to an event.

Looking forward to having multiple file uploads, automatic file renaming, moving attached files to specific folders, and conditional logic. Be great to have form inputs formatted in various easy to use templates that can be nicely printed or better yet converted to PDF. Iā€™d be willing to donate $ to the cause to have this completed fairly quick. Iā€™m sure others would too.

Congrats on a great app!

Are there any plans to integrate a simple captcha or a honeypot hidden field to ward of spam?

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Are there any plans to integrate a simple captcha or a honeypot hidden field to ward of spam?

There is an open issue for this question: spam bot protection. Ā· Issue #549 Ā· nextcloud/forms Ā· GitHub

Is there any option to show score after submitting survey if forms?

Hello, is it possible for different members of a group to access the form results or is it just possible for the person who created the form ? Thanks !

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