Adds a short-answer text question to the form.
class FormApp method .addTextItem()
FormApp is the Apps Script service.
.addTextItem() is the method name you will see after a dot in your code.
What it does
Why it's used
- Add a company name or notes question programmatically.
- Build forms from a list of fields in a sheet.
Common errors
- Forgetting parentheses on addTextItem. Write FormApp.addTextItem(), not FormApp.addTextItem or addTextItem by itself.
- Skipping dots between chained calls. Each step needs a dot, like FormApp.addTextItem().
- Adding spaces where they do not belong. Write FormApp.addTextItem(), not FormApp .addTextItem(), FormApp.addTextItem (), or FormApp . addTextItem().
- Wrong capitalization. Use FormApp and addTextItem, not formapp or addtextitem.
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