Live results
After they submit, respondents see how everyone answered. The same results open on their own page, for a screen in the room, with an AI summary on top if you want one.
Turn it on
Open Settings, then the Submissions tab.
Under After someone submits, pick Show live results. This replaces the other choices there, such as going to a web page.
- Save. The next respondent sees the results after they submit.
The Live results link under the choices is the address of the results page. Click it to copy it. Publish the form first: the link appears once the form has a share link.
What respondents see
After they submit, respondents see the thank-you page with “Showing results in 3 seconds…”, then the results. Someone who comes back to the form after submitting goes straight to the results. If the form lets people change their answers, the Edit your response button stays under the results.
Each choice, switch, rating, scale, ranking, and matrix question gets a chart with its answer counts, in your form's button color. Text, email, phone, contact, file, signature, and payment questions never appear, and no result shows a name or a written answer.
AI summary
An AI summary puts a short recap above the results: a headline and up to three points about what the answers add up to. Your team generates it on the form's Summary view, which explains what it reads and what it costs. To show it to respondents too:
- Generate a summary on the Summary view and read it there.
In Settings, the Submissions tab, with Show live results picked, switch AI summary on.
- Save. Visitors now see it at the top of the results.
The summary does not update on its own. The card says how many responses it is based on and when it was generated, so visitors know it can trail the live counts. Switching AI summary off hides it from respondents; your team still sees it on the Summary view.
The results page
Every share link has a results page: the link followed by /results, such as form.formstep.io/aB3dE9xY/results.
Anyone with it sees the results without answering, and every share link of a form opens the same results. Open it on a projector or a TV
while people answer: new responses appear within a few seconds, and on a wide screen the results sit in two columns with larger text.
What counts
Completed responses from the form's share links. Answers to requests stay with the request and are not counted.
- The latest 5,000 responses. Older ones are left out, and the page says so.
- The published form: a question you add or rename shows after you publish.
- Deleting a response takes it out of the results.
Privacy and access
A form behind a password keeps its results behind it: respondents who entered the password see them after they submit, and the results page does not open.
- A closed form keeps its results page. A deleted form or a revoked link takes it away.
- Pick another choice under After someone submits, and the results page closes.
- Questions and options show as written, in the form's language.