Sharing & embedding
Share a form by link, embed it in your site, email it, or export it as HTML.
The public link
Every form has a public URL that anyone can open, no Questionful account needed on their side. Share it wherever you like.
Responses submitted through it are anonymous unless the form asks who someone is.
Embedding in your own site
The form can be rendered inside a page on your own site rather than sent to a Questionful URL.
If your deployment restricts the renderer to named domains, the site you embed on has to be on that list. Otherwise the form will not render. Ask whoever administers your instance, or get in touch.
How it looks when opened
The form’s renderer mode decides what a respondent sees: default puts a section’s questions on one page, slideshow presents one question at a time. Both honour branching, and both can show a progress bar. See Building forms.
Emailing it to a contact list
Questionful keeps contact lists, and a form can be sent to one from inside the app. Sending is paced rather than instant: messages queue and go out in batches, which is what keeps a large send from being treated as a burst by mail providers.
Recipients can unsubscribe, and unsubscribed contacts are skipped on later sends.
You can send a preview to yourself first.
Invitation volume is capped per day and per recipient. See sending limits before planning a large send.
Exporting the form as standalone HTML
A form can be exported as a self-contained HTML file that submits back to Questionful. Host it on your own domain and the form is yours end to end, with the responses still collected in your account.
The export is limited to the plain question types: short answer, paragraph, multiple choice, checkboxes and dropdown, plus title and image blocks. A form containing anything else is refused, and the export check names the types that blocked it before you download.
Branching and quiz scoring are not carried into the file either. The exported form is a flat set of pages that posts back to Questionful, so keep it for simple forms and use the embed where the logic matters.
Closing a form
Turn the form off from its settings when you are done. It keeps its responses and stays in your dashboard, but anyone opening the link sees a closing message you write, rather than a broken form.