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Data collection forms

Build forms like Google Forms — short answers, choices, checkboxes, dropdowns, linear scales, ratings, yes/no, numbers, dates, times, e-mails — with sections, skip logic and a theme. Every question is a variable of a dataset created for the form (or an existing one), every response a case, and the Responses tab shows live counts, percentages, means and charts.

Updated 2026-09-12

Create a form

  1. Project → Forms → New form. Name it and pick a template (blank, patient satisfaction, case report form, screening) — a dataset “Form: <name>” is created for you — or choose “Existing dataset” to turn its variables into questions.
  2. Add questions from the panel on the right: each type stores the right kind of variable (a Likert scale becomes an ordinal integer with value labels, checkboxes a text list, yes/no a boolean…).
  3. Edit labels, help text, options and scale anchors on the cards; mark questions required or hidden; reorder with the arrows; add sections to split the form into pages; set “Show only if” for skip logic.
  4. Save changes, then Open form in the header.

Every question is a real variable in the Data Studio, so the moment answers arrive you can run frequencies, crosstabs, t-tests or a regression on them — by hand, or by asking your connected agent.

Design and rules

  • Design: theme colour (swatches or any hex), an emoji before the title, tinted or plain background, progress bar, introduction and thank-you message, with a live preview.
  • Rules: anonymous responses, respondent name, optional e-mail, several responses per person or device, shuffled options, close automatically after N responses, show the summary to respondents.

Share links and QR codes

Create as many links as you need — one per clinic, ward or collector — each with its own label, expiry and response cap; revoke any of them at any time. The active link has a QR code to download or print, and an iframe snippet to embed the form in a website. Members can also answer from the Preview tab without a link.

Public submissions are rate-limited per address and per link, validated against the variable types on the server, and never accept passwords or files.

Responses

ViewWhat it shows
SummaryOne card per question: pie or bar chart with counts and percentages for choices, distribution and mean for scales, histogram and statistics for numbers, timeline for dates, latest answers for text; responses per day at the top
IndividualBrowse responses one by one
TableEvery response as a row with who, when and which link

Export CSV or open the dataset in the Data Studio for the full statistics engine, graphs and the Python/R runner; a connected AI agent reaches the same dataset over MCP.

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