Hello everyone! I have made an automation where a user fills out a Google form and then I am sending them the email automatically. However, I have troubles with scheduling. Is it possible to set it up to work automatically after the Google Form has been submitted?
Welcome to the Make community!
The trigger is a polling trigger, so it checks every 15 minutes whether there is a new form submission.
You can reduce this duration if you want more frequent checks.
For more information, see the Make Academy and Help Centre.
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
— @samliew
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Hello, thank you for your support. Is there way to send it right away without having to wait 15 minutes?
As sam said you can lower the amount of time between runs.
Google forms does not have an instant response module.
2 possible solutions:
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I use jotform for my forms and they have this option to get the submissions instantly.
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(more complicated) Set up a webhook in Google Forms for when your form is submitted, you can use a Google Apps script and a trigger to send data to a webhook URL when a new response is submitted
2nd one sounds interesting, I am not familiar with Webhooks, are there any useful resources to get this set up?
If you are not familiar with webhooks or scripting this will be difficult. I’m sure there are plenty of youtube videos or ask chat gpt to lead you through this.
This is a quick video that uses a tool to connect the webhook so you don’t even need to script here
Alternatively, you can use another form builder that sends to webhooks, which are instant.
For more information, see Front-end interface options for Automations? - #2 by samliew
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