Forms: Ability to embed form into website

[jancborchardt]

Similar to how we do with the Calendar, it would be great to be able to embed a shared form into a website, as sort of a permanent survey or contact form. Google Forms allows this and it’s often used on websites.

@rullzer said it needs some special view (like Calendar has) and also needs some CSP etc magic set.

[ei8fdb]

Crowdsignal (from Automattic) allows this. See this as an example.

It is useful, but in my opinion less important than a rich questionnaire form builder. For doing user research, I usually explain "please fill out this form hosted on XYZ".

[elioqoshi]

Agree with @ei8fdb ! Definitely nice to have but not a dealbreaker (at least in my similar experiences when we were conducting user research).

[fmorato]

I use the same NC instance for different projects and having mismatching visual identities is not so nice. The embedded form would be great, especially with possibility to overwrite styles, as in Nextcloud appointments: https://github.com/SergeyMosin/Appointments

[kscheel]

I think simple embedding should work when allowing iframes as described here?
https://return2.net/nextcloud-enable-external-iframe/

[skjnldsv]

Yes, it just need a new endpoint like /embed/{formhash}
And use a different simple template like https://github.com/nextcloud/files_pdfviewer/blob/419c59d1aa01ba75b3d0645cec28e36c8747dd4d/lib/Controller/DisplayController.php#L59

[Lionel-cl]

I use the same NC instance for different projects and having mismatching visual identities is not so nice. The embedded form would be great, especially with possibility to overwrite styles, as in Nextcloud appointments: https://github.com/SergeyMosin/Appointments

overwrite styles or use of html file, in order to create a complex form (several fields on a same line, group of fields, colors, ...) would be great to inscription / contact / request form in a web page.

Another approach would be to record a response to a Form by a post from any html page. In addition this would allow the realization of certain issues while awaiting their integration into Form.

May I have an approximate date of the availability of a such feature?
Thanks your app

[fmorato]

Lionel,

I agree that it'd be great to hove such feature.
Do I understand that you'd like to sponsor the feature?

2 Nov 2020 23:01:27 Lionel-cl [e-mail]:

I use the same NC instance for different projects and having mismatching visual identities is not so nice. The embedded form would be great, especially with possibility to overwrite styles, as in Nextcloud appointments: https://github.com/SergeyMosin/Appointments

overwrite styles or use of html file, in order to create a complex form (several fields on a same line, group of fields, colors, ...) would be great to inscription / contact / request form in a web page.
May I have an approximate date of the availability of this feature?

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[Lionel-cl]

@fmorato,

Why not. But only if I am sure that the contents of the app version meet all my needs and not just this feature.

[skjnldsv]

@Lionel-cl While this embed feature have been approved, I cannot guarantee that all of your needs are on the roadmap of this repo.
Please check existing issues and open new tickets if necessary (duplicates will be closed). I'll suggest you arrange yourself with @fmorato to sponsor tickets that are already accepted and set 1. to develop.

[ialokim]

Hi, I would like to quote @Lionel-cl from above:

Another approach would be to record a response to a Form by a post from any html page. In addition this would allow the realization of certain issues while awaiting their integration into Form.

As the Forms API has now been documented, I would like to ask if there is or could be a way of submitting responses anonymously without authentication. I would need something similar to the submission/insert endpoint, but just without the need of having an user account on the nextcloud instance.

[lukasstevens]

I am wondering if the request token is persistent? If that is the case, one could use an HTML form and then POST the content of the form to Nextcloud. Or am I missing something? Of course a well-supported way to embed the form (with custom styling) would be even better.

[jotoeri]

Hey @lukasstevens, to be honest i can't exactly answer your question about the request-token. However, for your use-case it sounds like you just want to create your own form and use the API, no? This is already possible using the ocs api, even without the token. You can have a look into the documentation: ☺️
https://github.com/nextcloud/forms/blob/master/docs/API.md#insert-a-submission