What forms are for

Forms let you collect information from people: a registration, an application, a survey, or feedback after an event. You build the questions once, share a link, and every answer collects in one place.

Two ways to use a form

A form can either belong to an event or stand on its own.

• An event registration form is linked to an event. Attendees fill it out as a required step before they get their ticket, so you can ask what you need up front. You create it from the event's admin panel: open the Registration form area under the Registrations group and press Create registration form. The event is already selected for you.
• A standalone community form is not tied to any event. Use it for a call for speakers, a membership application, or a general survey. You create it from the community admin panel: open Forms under the Communication group and press Create form.

You can also link a standalone form to an event so it becomes that event's registration form. One thing to know: once a form has been linked to an event and saved, that link is fixed. To point a form at a different event, create a new one.

Start from a template

When you create a form you can start from a ready-made template or from blank. The templates are:

• Basic attendee info — name, email, phone, consent.
• Workshop / session — the basics plus experience level and dietary needs.
• Networking event — the basics plus company, role, and LinkedIn.
• Call for speakers — talk title, abstract, format, bio, and more.
• Call for sponsors — company, budget, and sponsorship interest.
• Marketing-friendly — the basics plus "how did you hear about us?" and a marketing consent.
• Post-event feedback — a rating and open questions about the event.
• Blank — start from scratch.

Whatever you pick, you can change every question afterward. See the Building a form article.

Sharing it and how people fill it out

Every form has its own public link. Copy it from the form's row and share it wherever you like.

Opening a form doesn't require an account: anyone who clicks the link sees the questions and can start filling them in. An account is only needed to send it — so there is a real person behind every answer.

Someone who isn't signed in fills the form out and finds the Google and email sign-in options where the submit button would be. Google keeps the page alive, so the form sends itself once the session lands. Email sign-in navigates away, but what they typed isn't lost: the answers are kept on that device and come back to the form on the way in. The sign-in screen says so too.

That same draft earns its keep at the worst moment — close the tab by accident or crash the browser, and the half-filled form comes back.

After sending, the person sees a thank-you screen with a recap of the answers they gave, so they know it went through.

You can close a form to new answers by setting its status to Passive. Its public link then shows a "no longer accepting submissions" notice. A form that is linked to an event keeps working inside that event's ticket flow even while its public link is closed.