How to send an email on form submission

To send an email using Google Apps Script upon Google Form submission, you can use a form submission trigger. A form submission trigger is a special type of Apps Script trigger that runs when a user submits a response to a Google Form.

To set up a form submission trigger, follow these steps:

1. Open the Script Editor: In Google Forms, go to the “Responses” tab and click the “Script Editor” button. This will open the Script Editor in a new tab.
2. Create the trigger: In the Script Editor, go to the “Edit” menu and select “Current project’s triggers”. In the “Add trigger” dialog, set the following options:

• Choose which function to run: Select the function that you want to run when the form is submitted.
• Select event source: Choose “From form”.
• Select event type: Choose “On form submit”.

3. Write the email function: In the Script Editor, write a function that sends an email. You can use the GmailApp.sendEmail() function to send the email. For example:

function sendEmail(e) {
  // Get the form response
  var formResponse = e.response;

  // Get the email address from the form response
  var email = formResponse.getResponseForItem().getResponse();

  // Set the email subject and body
  var subject = "Your email subject";
  var body = "Your email body";

  // Send the email
  GmailApp.sendEmail(email, subject, body);
}

This function will get the email address from the form response and use it to send an email with the specified subject and body.

4. Test the trigger: Submit a response to the form to test the trigger. If everything is set up correctly, the script will send an email immediately.