I'm getting undefined errors for all variables starting with e. What am I doing wrong?

Hey Jeff - I am doing a Fill In the Rhyme Workshop for a DEI Class I am launching. This was perfect for saving my students a step by taking their form and completing the document I will give them to rehearse from. You just helped me write my first little script - I am learning solidity as a hobby, so this was neat to incorporate into my education project. Worked like a charm. I got one error -misplaced comma that I quickly noticed and worked perfectly after that. Great job man - great pace, great detail, super job brother!

how can you declare (e) ??? it is not working when i try this script

To be honest: this was way too complicated for me and I'm still stuck with the problem I am trying to solve 😂 But I am liking and comment for the algo, because I really like your energy in the tutorial. Thanks!

nice video, question TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'values') how to fix that?

15 minutes video = 3 lessons anticipated in the class room with rookies. I have 80 this year, so I should branch out for the German speaking students on the part vocational track towards a trainee position. I should be able to use the "title" to demonstrate the possibility of formatting the text for the more casual tone in Switzerland of maskuline and feminine in the text, to deviate from the unisex polite standard German "Sie" . A completed traineeship is for several topics qualifying for the University acceptance, including ETH Zürich.

This was exactly what I was looking for to populate a document with client info, thank you!

Jeff, 2 years after you posted, I was able to follow along and increase my paperwork productivity. Amazing. Now I have to research how to use a drop-down menu to print more extensive verbiage.

I love how you went over each code line by line

I've used this tutorial before to auto fill a google doc from a form, but I'm wanting to put my doc template in a google sheet. The main purpose is for that sheet to look similar to a doc if I were to print but to also have the ability use the "sum" function available in a sheet to add up info that will be added after the sheet is auto created from the script.

Jeff, I'm just getting back into coding and could not stand the online courses. I did your simple example, and it is indirectly related to one of my projects, and I am hooked. The code is simple but it gives me a start. Good job and thanks.

I got an error saying that the e and the other values from e is undefined

Thank you so much! I can't believe Google hasn't made a proper function between form and doc yet. I came here to learn this because I was trying to make one-link access to a form on my Role Playing Discord, for people to submit their Original Characters for roleplay, and then THAT response into a reference doc that I could share with all the players on discord about each player. Woo!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. This is perfect for quickly creating, organizing, and sharing lesson plans.

Hi!! Just saw your video, and I’m looking to create a contract for my business , so the workflow I envision is Client fills out form > it then populates the contract with some of the info they already filled out in the form, but my question is what do I do about the info that I need to add manually? I guess just add it manually?😅

Nice video. I took it as a base of a project using a sheet template instead. As several users will be sending responses at the same time, I preferred to use batch processes with triggers.

Thank you for this! I am a middle school teacher and in the course of less then an hour, I was able to make a form, and edit a template for lesson plans. It should save me dozens of hours in the future!

Hi, why this not work for me. It was an error: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'values'). I copied the code but not working. Can you help me?

hi, thank you very much for this tutorial. I'm absolutely new to coding but this is exactly the usecase i need for work. However, when i copy your code and insert my file and folder ID's i always get this error notfication: function autoFillForm(e) { var name = e.values[0]; var nachname = e.values[1]; var standort = e.values[2]; TypeError: Cannot read property 'values' of undefined autoFillForm @ Code.gs:2 I haven't quiet understood the meaning of (e) in the function name Can you help?

This was so helpful for me and my colleagues as we streamline some form submissions at our school. As a chemistry teacher- I know zero coding terms so please bear with me! We were wondering if there is a way to add code around line 10 for the file name to add a 1,2,3 ect if the same person submits the form. Ex. John Doe 1, John Doe 2. We have students who should complete the form once, but sometimes redo if they need to. (I know we can look at time stamps- we are just trying to streamline it). We also wondered if there is a way for the new document created's link to be inserted in the spreadsheet's row for that document. This tutorial was amazingly helpful! Thank you so much for it as well as the vast amount of information on your site!

Hello Jeff!! Thanks for this extremely helpful video. I hope I can get your help on these two questions: 1) How would I go about also creating an auto-saved PDF version of that google doc (a pdf that will download when i click the link in the column) perhaps in the column adjacent to this one: is this possible (do you have a link on your website for this as a tutorial?) 2) How do I get the script to STOP or NOT run if the actual spreadsheet row is empty? Sometimes I have a few extra empty rows in my GoogleSheet, and this script will keep running and essentially create empty documents. I assume this is something I can add as an "if" statement in the rows.forEach(function(row,index){}, and ive been trying to experiment but not able to figure it out. In otherwords, something for example, "if the first column of my spreadsheet is empty, DONT create a document, (e.g., return))". I tried adding in "if (row[1 === 0]) return;", which i understand to mean, if Column B in my spreadsheet is empty, skip this row, but that doesnt seem to work). ****EDITING MY QUESTION as i think i found my answer to my second question. I added if (row[1] == "") return; and that seemed to work :) Thanks in advance for your help for question 1 , and happy new year!!

I really loved this tutorial. Very well detailed, and the code part is also very well explained. I have a question. If I want to put all the answers in one Google like a list of names, nationalities, age, etc; how would it be?

Thank You for this walk through. Clear, organized and Concise! Really helped me see what is possible with Apps scripting. 👌

Great job Jeff. I really appreciate the walk through. I am a school leader and I wanted an easy way to create walk through forms to then populate them and then I could send them to the teachers in my building. Thank you so much!

Tried used it but get error cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'values'...

Hey Jeff, First of all, this video was so amazing! Thank you so much for making this. I do have a couple of questions that hopefully you can address. 1. If I was to enable the form to upload a photo, How would I go about ensuring that the google doc pasted in the actual photo instead of just a link to where the file is located on my google drive? Is this possible to do? How would I go about doing it? 2. I was trying to make it to where the populated file would then email itself to whoever filled out the form with their answers. I have it configured to where the form emails the person a .PDF copy of the google but I would like it to send a word doc instead. Preferably a .DOCX. When I use the MimeType function, it only works when I use .PDF. If I put in any other file type extension i get an error. The form still populates a new doc in the folder but it won't send the email of that particular doc. Any suggestions on fixing these issues?

This is so helpful! What might I do if I have a question on my form that allows for checkbox/multiple answers? How would we deal these out to specific cells?

hi Jeff, magnificent!! after trying, i managed to make it work.. anyway if I make another column in the sheets for example D2, containing "=left(a2,3)".... and i declare "var nick = e.values[4];".... and "body.replacetext('{{nick}}', nick);"..... the {{nick}} in the docs stay untouched, while the {{firstname}}, etc can be changed.. do you know what's wrong?

Man, I can't believe this worked, thank you so much.

Hi, You are super. How can it be done without creating a form? Print the data from the Google Sheet list to the word document. How will the script code be written?

u saved so much time for me and my internship. thank you!

Great video for me to understand, a non-engineer! I do have one question - I have a question on the Google Form that is a multiple check box option so that translates to it inputting the title to "Example [1st choice]". How do I put in the var function since it doesn't recognize the brackets and also because I can't change the titles for the columns in Sheets? Thanks in advance!

Hi Jeff, very well done ... and it helped me a lot. But i have another issue ... ( e.g. an Invoice with header informations and then a table with the invoice items ) In my template the items are in a table ... and this is where the problem starts. How can i fill in a loop item for item in the docs template ( items in a table ) ... All over the net i found no solution ... 😢

The best, easiest, simplest explanation i'v ever seen! Thank you so much1

I am curious about implementing a checkbox grid style of answer. For example, if I wanted to choose a specific location, then certain team members to assign to a project from that location, then it creates columns for each location. Is it possible to do an "if not blank" style of function to auto-populate the appropriate team members into the template doc? I have put in a e.namedVariable but then columns must be the same name and it doesn't tell the name of the location that way.

Hi, it is a great video. Can I add an extra column in the spreadsheet which will replace the additional placeholder of the template? The extra column is not available in the google form.

Hello, the google document is successfully being generated in the response/populated folder but somehow when i opened the populated file, the values that are not being updated/changes from the google sheet to the google document. Here is the script im using: function autoFillNoticeOfPastDueAssessmentLetter(e){ var timestamp = e.values[0]; var hoaName = e.values[1]; var dateOfLetter = e.values[2]; var homeOwnerName = e.values[3]; var unitNumberStreet = e.values[4]; var city = e.values[5]; var state = e.values[6]; var zipCode = e.values[7]; var outstandingBalanceAmount = e.values[8]; var unitAccountNumber = e.values[9]; var mcmOfficeBranchNumber = e.values[10]; var templateFile = DriveApp.getFileById("1i9_EVGoS_SKfhZv1T4grw5Y2kHg_hgDo"); var templateResponseFolder = DriveApp.getFolderById("1mfkEknW-kmkzjDj5qQ9K_PM7gAj7UY1I"); var copy = templateFile.makeCopy(dateOfLetter + ', ' + hoaName + ', ' + homeOwnerName + ', ' + unitNumberStreet , templateResponseFolder); var doc = DocumentApp.openById(copy.getId()); var body = doc.getBody(); body.replaceText( body.replaceText("{{HOAName}}",hoaName); body.replaceText("{{Date}}",dateOfLetter); body.replaceText("{{HomeownerName}}",homeOwnerName); body.replaceText("{{UnitNumberStreet}}",unitNumberStreet); body.replaceText("{{City}}",city); body.replaceText("{{State}}",state); body.replaceText("{{ZipCode}}",zipCode); body.replaceText("{{OutstandingBalanceAmount}}",outstandingBalanceAmount); body.replaceText("{{UnitOwnerAccountNumber}}",unitAccountNumber); body.replaceText("{{MCMBranchPhoneNumber}}",mcmOfficeBranchNumber); doc.saveAndClose(); } Let me know what im doing wrong in this case. Thank you so much!

Hi Jeff, firstly thanks very much for the great video, it was exactly what I was looking for. I created my own template made a few changes to your code and it worked perfectly..! However, I would prefer to store all my data in columns rather rows...How do I go about changing your code to achieve this?

This has been a great help, I am wondering if it is possible to save the doc to a specific folder and that folder would be correlated to a name from a drop down inside of the form itself?

This is fanstastic, easy to use. One question, I got it working great except it duplicates on form submission and creates two identical docs in my destination folder. any thoughts on what I goofed up?

Very helpful, but every so often (maybe 10% of the time) the form submission will fail to trigger the document creation, and nothing gets logged. Is there a way to re-run the trigger for the most recent form submission? Currently, if I try to manually re-run the trigger, I get an error, "TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'values')". I assume this is because it's going to the next line on the spreadsheet, which is blank. EDIT: I ended up using your follow-up video, "Auto Fill Google Doc Template from Google Sheets Data Using Google Apps Script". That method works as a workaround for when the form submission trigger fails.

Thanks Jeff, have got this working for my own form - brilliant. However, is there a piece of code that can be included in the script to autoprint the newly created files?

Hi, thank you for this tutorial. One question I hope you can answer: instead of generating new templates for every new form responses, how can I add new forms response data to existing docs depending on the options chosen in the docs (example: person A selects it's them filling out the form in the first option, so everything thereafter gets added to their specific doc template?!). I really hope you can help! Thank you

Hey Jeff, again, amazing tutorial! I was wondering whether we could fill out a Google Sheet with the data instead of a Google Doc.

Jeff, this was really clear and easy to follow. If you are still answering questions, I'd love some advice. I want to create a form that appends to a Google Doc each time it's submitted, not create a new doc with each submission. Basically, to take notes (date, subject, note text). Each note would append to the file (gives me a searchable file to find command lines, etc). Can that be done? I suspect most of what you described here would be used.

Finally. I have been looking for this solution. Thanks for the explanation Jeff.

Thanks for the tutorial. I have one question, does the table in the google doc append whenever someone submits a form or it will go to a new google doc?

How can I make it work for many data information, I mean having a lot of names and dates .... in google sheets and want them all be in one google doc table. I want to auto create invoices with one client buying many articles and its complicated for i hope you can help me with that. Thank you for all your efforts ❤❤

So this video work perfect and I have used it. But I am needing help because my google doc is more complex with check boxes to match the google form. How can I add that to my app script to check the boxes on the doc like the google form?

Hi, excelent video, it was very easy to follow. I have a question tho, do you know how to autofill a doc from multiple google forms? Thanks

Just got an error -> TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of undefined

Hey! Non developer here trying to better automate client status reports. With each new form submission will I be able to have the info added to the same document every time or will it create a new document?

Since the creation of this video, I can't find Script Editor under TOOLS in Google Sheets. What's the updated procedure?

Thanks so much for this. My last line is giving me so much issues and wont let me trigger. it keeps saying Syntax error: SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input line: 51 file: Code.gs.............. I have everything typed correctly, what should i do? It aslo says I dont have any target functions. I dont know what else to do... Could my template not be in the right place?

I'm getting errors with the "e.values" part. Any thoughts on what the problem might be?

Hello! I have used your video to set this up previously, but now when I go back to try and do it again, the code won't work with the curly brackets for the replacetext portion. Any ideas? I am getting super frustrated. I have tried three times and completely created new forms, docs, etc. each time.

Hi Jeff, very helpful video - thank you! Wondering if there is a way to then send the completed Google Doc as either a Google Doc or a pdf for the person that filled out the Google Form. (one of the Google Form questions would be email address). Looking forward to your reply.

I dont have the option to select event source "from spreadsheet", what do i do

How do you get it to update the same document over and over and add new rows of data to the same google doc? For instance, if I created a journal and I wanted my Google Forms entries to populate into my doc continuously?

Thanks for the video! What about in the case of uploaded images in Google Forms?

I got the following message when I clicked on "run" after following your instructions. TypeError: Cannot read property 'values' of undefined (line 2, file "Code") This is my line 2- var timestamp = e.values[0]; Do you have any suggestions? Also, I am playing around with the triggers etc. Is there a way to get a document to generate and appear in the folder for a form response that was already submitted? For example, I tried putting a trigger for On Edit, and On Change, and On Open. I then proceeded to close and re-open the response spreadsheet, and edit one of the phone numbers on a response that was submitted before I created this script, and nothing happened that I can see. I have 2 people who have already submitted, and when I do a test one it works, but I don't want to ask my people to resubmit the form, nor do I want to type all their info just to get it into a document, was hoping for a way to grab those old ones and make them transfer. Upon playing with the different triggers, I believe it sent the Summary of Failures email to me at those times with more info on the Error, the email says the following: TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of undefined So I am not sure what I am missing, but the rest works fine when a new form is filled out and submitted, just don't know why there is a small error in there somewhere? Thanks for a very helpful and informative video for someone who has never done anything like this before! I would love to learn more!

I have checkboxes and multiple-choice responses mixed with text responses in a Google form. Following your video, I'm getting responses on the newly created document on questions 1-5 and then I stop getting the responses on question 6 which is a select all that apply checkbox response. Question 7 is a text response and then question 8 is again a select all that apply checkbox response. What do I need to enter for the checkbox responses to be added to my document and if there are multiple checkboxes selected how can they be separated by a comma? I found a comment on your website about using the textToPrint command but I think my situation is different? And how would I code for the multiple-choice responses? Thanks in advance.

Is there any way to generate responses into the Doc from a checkbox of items on the Form, inserting only the items checked? Does that make sense? Thank you for the great tutorial! I am working on creating this for my team.

Your videos are amazing man... Is there any content in your channel teaching how to import data from MYSQL to Google Sheets?

is there a way to put a date rage in one document. It would be awesome if all rows could be pulled into one document. For example let's say you have 10 employees and wanted to generate a report showing all 10 on 1 document not 10 separate docs.

Video was great and I understand everything. However, I keep getting a TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'values' ) I watched the video a few times and don't see where I'm making a mistake. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Is it possible to take this one step further, and convert the DOC to PDF. And then automate an email with the pdf attached?

Hi Jeff, loved the video! Is there any chance of building a bridge between Docs and Forms that when the form submits data it populates a new doc on an existing template?

Super useful, concise, and easy to follow. Thank you!

Hi! Jeff! I think you solved my long long journey on finding sort of this solution! Thank you! I would like to populate data rows of a spreadsheet to more documents. So the scenario is: to make a folder by the name of the selected client and generate documents by his/her data by templates. I may trigger the selected clients document generation by filling a form or tick a mark in a cell. Do you think this method is available to do this?

How does it know which spreadsheet to pull data from? When you're in Sheets, and you click Tools -> Script Editor, does it automatically assume you want to pull data from that spreadsheet? I'm having issues because I've parsed out my data into separate sheets and want to pull data from those, but they share the same file ID as the original. Is there a way to specify that I want the function to look at another sheet within the workbook? Great video, btw. I'm very new to all of this script language, but this was just what I needed.

can we have a document section too added to the last column which can automatically be filled whenever auto-generated document is created?

why can't there just be a button in Google Forms that says export to Google Docs, (or something similar...

I am having an issue with replacing the text in the Header. The code I used was: var body = doc.getHeader(); body.replaceText("{{Name}}", name); body.replaceText("{{Whatever is on my Doc}}", with one of the fields from the form); I used to use this but it no longer works. How do I replace the text in the Header with the text entered in the form? Thank you

Everything appears to work except for the replaceTest part. Thoughts?

This is excellent, and it worked after I fixed a rather stupid error on my part. In my script, I typed var doc = DocumentApp.openById(copy.getID()); The error function on the trigger told me copy.getID won't work. I changed it to getId, and it worked! Syntax is so, so important! But the trigger debugging feature caught my silly mistake.

Is it possible to conditionally format paragraphs based on responses? An example would be the selection field will populate one paragraph if a certain selection and another with a different selection.

Hi Jeff! Thank you for the great video. When I go to add a trigger there is no "from spreadsheet" option for event source. Any idea why this might be and any recs on how I can fix this? Thanks!

Is there a way to get lots of responses to populate into a Google doc instead of a spreadsheet? I need a lot of information from people to automatically go to certain places on a specific form, but not a spreadsheet.

Hi jeff, for some reason, mine did not work it notifies me that there was a TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefines (reading 'Values') and i have no idea how to fix it but great tutorial, very easy to follow

Jeff, thanks so much for this tutorial. Well presented, clear and it worked for my Form processing. Much appreciated.

thanks for the tutorial.... what is the code for upload a image?

Thank you Jeff! This was easy to follow.

Somethings changed. I've done this over 10 times over with no typos but one thing keeps not working. Everything works except replacing words

Great video !! Could the replacement function work with a multiple choice question submission from a form ? I've noticed that multiple values in a single cell are separated by a comma ?

hi jeff. i have watched your 2 videos on autofill and it was really great learning from your video. I'm just wondering if you have an idea on how to autofill from google sheet to google doc that includes images uploaded from google form. thanks a lot..

Is there anyway to populate a table located in your header that already has some data filled in example: company logo and company name are filled in but I have 6 other rows that need filled

Hi Jeff, Great video! I'm not sure if this question has been answered but I have a template made in docs that I make a copy of each time I need to fill it out. Is it possible with this method to have it autofill a new copy from a pre-made template? Basically, I need a new doc created from every form submission from a template that's already been created.

Help! I've copied the script exactly but keep getting an error: "TypeError: cannot read property 'values' of undefined"

Thank you very much for the video! It worked super! One question: I have a table with thirty possible lines, which will not always be filled. Is there any way that, if the form field is blank, the document is also blank?

Ugh I tried this video too and didn’t work. Got through all the code but it didn’t pull my variables into my doc…..

Thanks Jeff. I tried it exactly as you have explained and get the error message: Exception: Unexpected error while getting the method or property getFolderById on object DriveApp. I tried copying and pasting the folder id again and even making a new folder and still won’t work. Any advice?

Does this method still work? Tried using "e" as a parameter and seems like the script doesn't know that I'm referring to the spreadsheet populated by the form.

Jeff, can we auto fill image to the docs after image upload respond in google form?

Hello and thank you for the introduction to Google Apps Script. I am trying to make an auto-fill Google Doc from Google Form. I've followed the video (and copied and pasted the script from the blog post) but I'm still running into an error: "TypeError: templateFile.makeCopy is not a function". I am using the newer version of the Scripts, is that a portion of the reason? I am highly convinced it's my error causing the issue. (And in reading others comments, ACK! I am a dolt!) Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong?

Thank you Jeff for this tutorial. I have a question. Is it possible to get the responses to go into a table within the same document? I am looking to input all of the responds on 1 table within 1 document. The table will have 15 rolls.

Super helpful. To take it further, do you know if you can have multiple functions that correspond to their own different google doc templates based on an answer given in google form? For example, if you had a drop down question in google forms, could you have a different google doc template for each option in the drop down question that is only activated when that answer is submitted on form submission?

Hey Jeff Excellent and very easy to follow. Was able to modify for my needs. Is there a way of running the script automatically every time a new row is added. Instead of having to click the create new doc button? Thank you Muhammad

Thank you very much! So very useful for my needs. I wonder if you can help me improve it a bit, though: I also need another var that, for instance, is a PROCV working on the 5th column, based on the key at column 4. I realized I can't make use of "var example = e.values(4);" to retrieve it. Would you be so kind to point me towards the solution?

I know I'm so close to getting this just right! I'm getting an error message: Code:2. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Seems like a few others are having the same problems. Thanks!