The Scenario
The product team spent a week designing a new intake form in Formdesk for client project requests. The field definitions are done — name, type, label, required flag — all 20 of them, sitting in a Google Sheet from the planning session. The form exists in Formdesk. Now someone needs to add all 20 fields to it.
That someone is apparently you.
The bad version:
- You open the form in Formdesk, click "Add field," select the type from the dropdown, fill in the label, toggle the required flag, save.
- Go back. Click "Add field." Select type. Fill in label. Toggle. Save.
- You've done this 8 times and you're already checking how many are left. There are 12.
Nobody designed this workflow. It's just what happens when a planning sheet and a form builder aren't connected to each other. You're the connection.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads your field definition table and creates each field in Formdesk through its built-in integration — one operation, no browser tab switching.
For each row in my sheet, create a Formdesk field in form ID from cell A1 using field name from column A, type from column B, label from column C, and required flag from column D
What You Get
- A new field created in Formdesk for each row in your sheet
- Field name, type, label, and required flag set from the corresponding columns
- Column E updated with the returned field ID for each row
- Rows where field creation fails (invalid type, missing required column) get an error note in column E — nothing skips silently
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some rows have a blank type column
For each row in my sheet, create a Formdesk field in form ID from cell A1 using name (column A), type (column B), label (column C), and required flag (column D) — skip any row where column B is blank and log 'skipped — missing type' in column E
The form ID needs to come from the sheet, not a fixed cell
Create a Formdesk field for each row using the form ID in column F, field name from column A, type from column B, label from column C, and required flag from column D — write the returned field ID into column G
You want to create fields only for rows marked 'ready'
For each row where column E says 'ready', create a Formdesk field in form ID from cell A1 using name (column A), type (column B), and label (column C) — log the field ID in column F
Full schema build with validation in one shot
Check column B (type) against the list of valid Formdesk field types: text, email, number, date, checkbox, select — flag any invalid types in column E as 'invalid type', then for all valid rows create a Formdesk field in form ID from cell A1 using columns A through D and write the returned field ID into column F
The field definition sheet becomes the build script.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet with a field definition table, drop the Formdesk form ID into cell A1, and ask it to build the form. Then link to Generate a Formdesk Forms Inventory in a Google Sheet or back to the Formdesk integration overview.