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Options from a connected table

Point a dropdown at a Google Sheet column or a Notion property, and the form follows the table instead of a list you retype.

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Connecting a question

  1. 1Connect Google or Notion under Integrations, if you have not already.
  2. 2Add a dropdown or multiple-choice question and open its properties.
  3. 3Choose the table and the column or property that holds the values.
  4. 4The panel then shows how many options came back and when they were last read.

Google needs no extra permission — the app already had read access to the spreadsheets you connected, so there is nothing to re-approve.

When it refreshes

  • Every time you publish the form.
  • While the form is in use. When someone opens it and the list is more than 15 minutes old, it refreshes in the background, so the next person sees the update.
  • Once a day for every published form, including ones nobody has opened lately.
  • On demand, from the refresh button in the question's properties.

When the source breaks

A dropdown with no choices is a form nobody can complete, so that is not allowed to happen.

  • If a refresh fails, the last list that worked keeps being served, and the builder tells you what broke.
  • If the source comes back empty — a cleared sheet, a filter matching nothing — that is treated as a mistake being made, not as an instruction to wipe your live form.
  • If a form is published before its first successful read, it falls back to whatever options you typed by hand.

Options from a connected table are never translated. They are your data and are served exactly as they arrive.