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title: "How to Design your File Upload Forms"
url: "https://digitalinspiration.com/file-upload-forms/design"
---

# How to Design your File Upload Forms

Now that our File Upload Forms script has been [authorized](./authorize.md), the next step is to design the web form that would be presented to your audience for uploading files and e-signatures.

![File Upload Forms menu](/_astro/file-upload-forms-menu.D2yQhcVM_ZDsa2K.webp)

Open the same Google Sheet that copied in the [previous step](./install.md), go to the `File Upload Forms` menu (it is near the help menu) and choose `Edit Form` from the pop-up menu.

## Design File Upload Form

[Section titled “Design File Upload Form”](#design-file-upload-form)

File Upload Form includes a simple drag-and-drop designer that lets you create beautiful material-design forms in minutes.

You can drag any question type from the left sidebar on to the main form canvas and it will be included in your web form.

![Form Designer](/_astro/online-form-designer.orDyCKFT_ZJjCxE.webp)

The supported question types are:

-   Short Answer - For questions with short answers like name, city, phone number, email address.
-   Paragraph - For longer answers like postal address, bug details, student feedback.
-   Checkboxes - For questions that where users can select more than once option - like preferred city, interests.
-   Multiple Choice - Audience can select any one option - for questions like gender, marital status.
-   Drop-down - When the choice of options is long and users have to select any one option - like country of residence.
-   Number - When you want to only allow numerical answers within a range - like the applicant’s age in years.
-   File Upload - Allow users to upload files of any size directly in your Google Drive.
-   Date and Time - Offers a beautiful date and time picker for answering questions like date of birth.
-   E-Signature - Accept electronic signatures in your forms and they sign is uploaded as PNG image in your Drive.
-   Heading - Add titles and sub-titles before questions of different types
-   Rich HTML - Insert HTML content in your forms, embed YouTube videos, images, Google Forms and more.

### Preview the Form

[Section titled “Preview the Form”](#preview-the-form)

Once you have added all the necessary questions to your form, click the Preview button to see how the final form will look like. It is only a preview and the file upload button or the submit button will not work.

![Form Preview](/_astro/preview.o159wImQ_10tY1k.webp)

Inside the preview mode, click the `Edit form` button to switch back to the design mode. If the design is complete, click the `Save` button to save the changes and close the Form Designer.