Form Builder Limitations

While Form Builder tries to achieve all possible ways of making it easier, there are a few limitations, primarily due to the lack of underlying Google Forms API support and/ or limitations on Google Forms. 

Note: It is important to understand the limitations and use the suggested workaround:

You can see below the known limitations.

Google Forms API limit on the number of questions. 

Google Forms has a limitation on the number of questions that can be added to a form, through the API. When attempting to add a large number of questions in a single batch update, or when the form is already too large, the Google Forms API returns an error indicating that the batch update failed due to exceeding the entry limit of the form schema.

If you're experiencing this issue, please refer to the problem on Google's Issue Tracker at https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/257209910. Kindly consider clicking on 'Vote: I am impacted' and leaving your comments to convey to Google the significance of addressing this limitation (within the Google Form API).

Form Builder is unable to import the file upload field.

Form Builder is unable to import the file upload field due to the Google Form API currently not supporting the creation of file upload questions.

Please refer to the open issue with Google at https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/229136447.  Do mark a star or raise your comments to show Google you need this feature (in Google Form API).

Workaround: The file upload type fields need to be created manually after importing all other fields using Form Builder.

Form Builder is unable to set response validations for the questions.

Form Builder is unable to set response validations for the questions. This is due to the lack of support from the Google Form API.

Please refer to the open issue with Google at https://issuetracker.google.com/u/0/issues/259532689.  Do mark a star or raise your comments to show Google you need this feature (in Google Form API).

Workaround: The response validation needs to be set manually after importing all other fields using Form Builder.

Formatting of questions (such as bold, italics, etc.) is not supported by the Forms API. 

Form Builder is unable to set text as bold, underlined, or italic. This limitation is due to the lack of support from the Google Form API.

Please refer to the open issue with Google at https://issuetracker.google.com/u/0/issues/278102595.  Do mark a star or raise your comments to show Google you need this feature (in Google Form API).

Workaround: The formatting needs to be done manually after importing all other fields using Form Builder.

Form Builder is unable to set navigation from one section to another section.

Form Builder is unable to set navigation from one section to another section. However, we do support the "go to section" feature for multiple-choice questions through Google Sheets.

Please refer to the open issue with Google at https://issuetracker.google.com/u/0/issues/315250768.  Do mark a star or raise your comments to show Google you need this feature (in Google Form API).

Workaround: The navigation for sections needs to be done manually after importing all other fields using Form Builder.

Form Builder is unable to Mark all other answers incorrect. 

The Form Builder cannot automatically mark all other answers as incorrect for short-answer questions because the Google Forms API doesn’t support this functionality.

Workaround: Manually mark incorrect answers after importing all other fields through Form Builder.

If Google APIs resolve these limitations, we will be incorporating the same in Form Builder as soon as possible.

Thank you for your understanding.