Google-forms – Retrieving user email address from Google Form survey results

There are different ways you can view a document made in Google Apps

1. docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub
2. docs.google.com/a/domain.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=FORMID
3. docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=FORMID
4. Embed on domain of application

Where 2 redirects to 3. Option 1 is most likely what you want users to see.

Option 1 is found via File > Publish to Web. Here you should see the choice to let users sign in with their domain.com account. This is greyed out but we will deal with this a little later on Thus if I am no signed with a domain.com I will get the request page. You will need to go to Form > Edit Form and change the sign-in option to view the form (not the spreadsheet). Now depending on your visibility settings you may get a pop-up asking whether the form should be seen outside of domain.com.

If you wanted Option 4, don't deselect this option. You will need to get this on the domain itself so for example domain.com/form.html. Using a Google sites for example https://sites.google.com/a/domain.com/test/ to handle the form will not work.

If you selected the uncheck the sign-in to view form, Option 3 should now work.

To get Option 1 working the admin of the Apps account needs to go in the Dashboard settings and manually enable it. Note changes will take a while to propagate, be patient with this change in the dashboard

Since you asked about "an alternate way to solve this problem", I suggest using a required checkbox question with only one option: namely, the text of terms and conditions. This is more in line with the industry practice which requires a user to explicitly check a box next to T&C. The full text of this option will be included in the response, and can be emailed to the user by a script running on form submission.

One drawback is that options do not support line breaks. But one can separate sections with some ASCII art: I used 58 = signs below. This sort of formatting, replacing line/paragraph breaks with ===, can be done automatically if the document is long; the result is then copy-pasted into an option. The email-sending script can reformat the text for email, say, by replacement str.replace(/={2,}/g, '\n').

Using a part of Stack Exchange terms of service for illustration:

I don't know what the maximal length of option text it, but it can be long (multiple screens to scroll).