Recently, I've been conducting a survey. I began creating it in Excel Forms Online but switched to Google Forms after I realized several of its shortcomings. I hit a few snags but I thought I was all set to go.
Unfortunately, I began adding questions to the form and changing responses (misspellings, etc...) and this began causing a whole bunch of problems. It's enough that I have to go back and ask users for their responses to new questions if applicable. What's worse is I can't modify a submission at all. I can't edit the spreadsheet connected to the form because results are stored in the form. If I regenerate the spreadsheet, then the response submitted in the form replaces whatever was there before. So I can't edit the spreadsheet at all.
I've been looking into a way to try to manually edit a user's submitted response. I found a resource here on Stack Overflow, and here on Google Groups at the Products Forum, but unfortunately, I tried all of the examples and none of them worked (yes, I put my form's URL in and everything and replaced the name with the spreadsheet name).
The error I continued receiving after I filled in my info was TypeError: Cannot call method "getDataRange" of null. (line 8, file "Code")
. But the sheet is not empty and I know that.
Is there some other way to make this work, or a better way to potentially edit sheet responses?
The only way to do this right now is to manually go back and re-submit the form again as that user. It's kind of a pain because it's 10 minutes of checking boxes and copying and pasting. Plus, last night I accidentally skipped copying 1 character and now I'd have to do it all over again.
From what I've seen online, this can be done, but nothing I have tried works. The form is currently live and accepting responses right now. Any solution is acceptable as long as there would be a way to edit their responses, either with a script or some other tool, so I don't need to manually re-do everything myself.