Feature Request: In Google Drive Integration, I want to name the folder after the form and the file name is after the person who filled it out.

  • Sarah Reynolds
    Asked on June 1, 2022 at 3:40 PM

    +1 to Kristen's question: "the pdfs of the forms have the same name -- the name of the folder plus .pdf. Is there any way to edit the name of the pdf that each form creates in the folder?"
    It's odd (and inconvenient) that the file name has to be the same as the folder name.
    Thanks!

  • Dragana JotForm Support
    Replied on June 1, 2022 at 7:24 PM

    Hello Sarah Reynolds,

    Thanks for reaching out to Jotform Support. Please note that the Submission PDF name is the same as the Google Drive folder name for this integration. If you want to change the submission PDF name, you should first change the Google Drive folder name. You can see how to do this in the screencast example below:

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    Reach out again if you have any other questions.

  • ReynoldsSarah
    Replied on June 2, 2022 at 1:01 PM

    I'm aware of how it currently works, thanks. I'm saying that it's weird that the folder and file name have to be the same. I can't think of a case in which that would ever be useful.

    For example, I could see it useful to:

    1. name the folder after the form and the file after the person who filled it out, so you could collect multiple submissions of the same form to compare; or
    2. name the folder after the person who filled it out and the file after the name of the form (my use case, so that I could then put other forms filled out by the same person in that folder and be able to distinguish them by filename.)
  • Camila JotForm Support
    Replied on June 2, 2022 at 2:52 PM

    Hello Sarah,

    Thanks for reaching out to Jotform Support. Unfortunately, this feature is not yet available in Jotform. Right now it gives the same name to the PDF as the folder.

    I've gone ahead and escalated your request to our Developer Team. When or if it's developed depends on their workload, how viable it is, and how many other users request it. If there are any updates, we’ll circle back to this thread and let you know. 


  • ReynoldsSarah
    Replied on June 2, 2022 at 3:01 PM

    Thanks.

  • ReynoldsSarah
    Replied on July 27, 2022 at 7:45 PM

    Just bumping this-- I've seen it in other threads and it is literally enough reason for us to switch off of Jotform-- it effectively means we can't have a folder per patient. There is no way to organize files effectively given the limitations of the current integration.

  • Herbert_Z
    Replied on July 28, 2022 at 2:08 AM

    Hello Sarah,

    Thank you for your patience while we’re looking into this. Although we don’t have a solution yet, rest assured, that we’ll keep working on this until it's resolved. We’ll get back to you as soon as we have an update.

    In the meantime, let us know if you have any other questions.