Forms

Forms make it easy to collect information from others, even if those people aren’t part of your Notion workspace or don’t use Notion at all. All members on all Notion plans can create and use forms.

Forms are connected to databases, so each question in your form is connected to a property in your database. This way, your form lives right alongside its responses, and you can use the information you collect in the same way you use information in any other kind of database.

To create a new form:

1. In a page, use the slash command /form.

2. Select Form in the menu that appears.

When you create your new form, a Respondent property will be created automatically to capture your respondents’ names. You can also allow respondents to remain anonymous in your form sharing settings →

If you have a database you’ve already been using to collect information from various people, it’s easy to add a form to that database! To create a form from an existing database:

1. In a database, select + next to your existing views. Depending on your screen size, you may have to open the dropdown next to your current view and select Add view.

2. In the menu that appears, select Form.

3. Select Create {#} questions to proceed.

Create a Created by property in your database if you’d like to capture your respondents’ names. You can also allow respondents to remain anonymous in your form sharing settings →

Once you’ve created a form, you’ll be taken to the form builder, which looks like this.

The form builder lets you decide what your form will look like and how it will work when you share it for others to fill out. To configure your form:

1. Give your form a title and an optional description.

2. Hover over the form’s title to add a Form icon or a Form cover.

3. Click into the questions in your form to edit them. By default, any changes you make in the form will be synced with the names of your database properties. For example, If you create a new question that asks “What time do you prefer?”, a new property with that same name will be created in your database. If you change a form question from “Favorite color” to “What’s your favorite color?”, your “Favorite color” database property will be renamed to “What’s your favorite color?”.

4. To add more questions to your form, select + underneath the last question.

5. Hover over each question in your database and select •••. From here, you can:

   • Make the question Required. This means that respondents will have to answer the question to submit the form.

   • Add a Description to your question so people can better understand what you’re asking about.

   • Allow a Long answer for text property questions.

   • Change the Question type, which is the equivalent of the property type. For example, this could be a Multiple choice question type or property if you want to ask a yes or no question. It could be a Date question type or property if you want to ask about someone’s availability or birthday.

   • Toggle off Sync with property name if you want your form questions to look different from your database property names. For example, maybe you’d like to ask “What’s your favorite color?” in your form, but you want the responses to be collected in a property with a more simple name, like “Favorite color”.

   • Duplicate question or Delete question.

6. Select ••• at the top of your form builder → Customize form. From here, you can adjust the submission experience for your respondents, like the submit button's Color and Text, as well as the Confirmation title and Confirmation body.

7. Once you’re done setting up your form, select Preview at the top to see what your form will look like when you share it with others.

To share your form:

1. Select Share form at the top of the form builder.

2. Select Who can fill out and choose one of the following options:

   • Anyone at {your workspace} with link, which means that any workspace members can fill out the form if they have the link. Guests can only fill out the form if they have been given access to the database that the form is connected to.

   • Anyone on the web with link, which means people who aren’t part of your Notion workspace and people who don’t use Notion can fill out the form if they have the link.

   • No access, which you can select if you’d like to close your form and stop accepting new responses.

3. If you’ve chosen to share your form with anyone on the web who has the link and you’re on a paid Notion plan, you can toggle Notion branding on or off depending on whether you want the Notion logo to appear in your form.

4. Toggle Anonymous responses on or off depending on whether you want the respondent’s name to be recorded when your form is filled out. Respondents for forms available to Anyone on the web with link will automatically be anonymous.

   • In forms created from scratch, this information will be captured in the Respondent property, which is automatically created in your database.

   • In forms created from an existing database, you can create a Created by property in the database to capture this information.

5. Copy the link to the form at the top of the menu and you’re ready to share.

You can fill out a form using your desktop or mobile device as long as you have the form link and the permissions required to do so. Keep in mind that some forms can only be filled out when you’re logged into the Notion workspace where that form has been created.

To get a copy of your form responses, you’ll need to log into your Notion account or create a new one. You’ll only be able to edit your form responses if you have Can edit content access to the database, or Can edit access to the database page where your responses are stored.

By default, form responses will be stored in a Table view of your database named Responses. You’ll see your form questions as database properties.

You can build automations into your form so that specific actions can be taken when you get a new response or when a question is answered a certain way. You can send status updates to the respondent, send them notifications in Slack, and more.

To do this:

1. Open your form builder.

2. Select ••• at the top → Automations.

3. Add one or more triggers for the automation.

4. Add one or more actions for the automation.

Learn more about automations here →

If you would like to report inappropriate content in a form, write an email to team@makenotion.com with a link to the form you’d like to report. If you can, include information about why you’re reporting the form.