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I've successfully created picklists from a Google sheet into a Google form following a tutorial (http://wafflebytes.blogspot.com/2016/10/google-script-create-drop-down-list.html) and Google's documentation, however I do not have the option to set a trigger on the Event 'From spreadsheet', as laid out in the the tutorials/documentation, so I must be missing a step and haven't been able to figure out what it is.

The result is that the options are not automatically updating and must be manually pushed. I would like to enable the options to be refreshed on open.

I do not have the option to updateForm + from spreadsheet, as pictured in those resources.

From tutorial

Configuration from tutorial

My options

My only options

What step am I missing? Or is this possibly a permissions issue (I am not owner of the documents, but I tried to reproduce this in docs I own and ran into the same issue)?

NOTE: I have not posted my script here because it's nearly identical to the one linked to in the tutorial.

Update:

I'm beginning more and more to think it has to do with our OAuth configurations or permissions. I even updated the manifest to explicitly authorize forms and sheets, but I'm still not offered sharing permissions. I will have our admin check in on this but if anybody has had experience in these matters, I'm all ears.

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There is no link to the tutorial.Alan Wells
The tutorial is using a trigger from the spreadsheet. Do you have the option to run a trigger from the spreadsheet?Jason Allshorn
Just updated with the link to the tutorial. ... @JasonAllshorn, alas no I have no option offered in the dropdowns - only the ones pictured with 'Update form' + 'from form'Lindsay Moss

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Since your options shows "From form", you are working on a project bounded to a form instead of the one that you created from your spreadsheet which is the one bounded to spreadsheet.

Rather than missing a tutorial step it could be that you had several script projects open at the same time and you are looking at the wrong one.

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