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How to open, close and schedule a form through the RESTful API?

  • 18 September 2021
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holicamp

Hey,

Seems like you can only change if a form is published or not through the /settings/is_public attribute on a form itself but I can’t find how to open/close a form from the PATCH /forms/{id} endpoint.

Inspecting the web UI, I can see that it’s doing its things using the PUT /forms/{id}/access-scheduling endpoint but this seems hidden from the public RESTful API.

Am I missing something? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Best answer by holicamp 21 September 2021, 08:26

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mathio
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Hello @holicamp , you should be able to use the PATCH request from Create API like this:

curl -X PATCH \
 -H "Authorization:Bearer <YOUR-TYPEFORM-PERSONAL-TOKEN>" \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -d '[{"op":"replace","path":"/settings/is_public","value":true}]' \
 https://api.typeform.com/forms/<FORM-ID> \
 -v

Make sure to use correct token and form ID values. Does this work for you?

holicamp

Hey @mathio thanks for this but I don’t think I explained clearly what I wanted to do.

I knew is_public could be changed from the API. This is basically driving this button within the UI

When is_public is set to true:

When I visit the Typeform, I get a 200 HTTP response and I can access the Typeform no problem.

When is_public is set to false:

When I visit the Typeform, I get a 404 HTTP response and this means my user cannot even access the Typeform.

What I would like to be able to control is this instead:

When a Typeform is open, my users can use the Typeform as usual and I can keep collecting responses.
When a Typeform is closed, my users can see the Typeform is not accepting any more responses and a custom message can be displayed.

Hope this clarifies things for you.

holicamp

I had this answer on Twitter

> Hi Clem 👋

> Sadly this is not possible at the moment.
> This endpoint is not yet documented, but hopefully soon 🤞

https://twitter.com/picsoung/status/1440117740400906242

Gabriel
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It comes from @picsoung so you can definitely consider that official 👨🏼‍⚖️ 

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito".
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Hi @picsoung,
is there any documentation or any news according to this request ?

Best regards

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