Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Easier Way to Create Forms in Google Docs

利用Google Docs便捷地创建调查表

You can now create forms directly from the New menu of Google Docs homepage.
现在你可以从
Google Docs主页新建菜单上直接创建调查表了。

After selecting the Form option, Google opens a wizard that lets you add questions, email or embed the form.
选择调查表后Google会打开一个向导,你可以添加问题或邮件,或者选择把表格嵌入在其他地方。


What I don't like is that Google doesn't link to the spreadsheet which includes the form, so you have to find the spreadsheet by going back to the documents list. The relation between forms and spreadsheet is confusing and it would be nice to detach the forms from spreadsheets and use the forms as one of the many possible data sources, along with feeds, CSV files published on the web, financial data etc.
我不喜欢的地方是Google没有提供包含调查表的表格的链接,要查看表格还要到文档的列表去找。调查表和表格之间的关系比较混乱,最好是把调查表从表格里分离出来,把调查表作为和feed,已在网上发布的CSV和财务数据等众多数据源的一种。

名词解释:
Feed,本意是“饲料、饲养、(新闻的)广播等”,RSS订阅的过程中会用到的“Feed”,便是在这个意义上进行引申,表示这是用来接收该信息来源更 新的接口;Feed就是为满足希望以某种形式持续得到自己更新的需求而提供的格式标准的信息出口,可以理解为,你的Blog页面是给人读的,而Feed是 给程序读的。
http://baike.baidu.com/view/566694.htm?fr=lingoes

Comma Separated Values,简称CSV,是一种纯文本格式,用来存储数据。在csv中,数据的字段由逗号分开,程序通过读取文件重新创建正确的字段,方法是每次遇到逗号时开始新一段数据。
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csv

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