Autocrat Bug: New Form Submissions Duplicate Last “Link to Merged Doc” Instead of Creating New File

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Kimberly Larson

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Nov 6, 2025, 1:21:45 PMNov 6
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When a new Google Form response is submitted, Autocrat copies down the previous row’s “Link to merged Doc” value instead of generating a new document.
It appears as if Autocrat is reusing the last merged file and skipping the merge process entirely.

Technical Details

  • Each form submission adds a new row to the response sheet (as expected).

  • However, instead of Autocrat creating a new merge document, it copies the “Link to merged Doc” from the last processed row.

  • This behavior happens across multiple spreadsheets and form connections, even after troubleshooting.

Troubleshooting Already Attempted

Here’s what has been tried so far (all with no success):

  1. Disabled all custom Apps Script triggers.

  2. Reconnected the Google Form to a new response destination.

  3. Rebuilt the entire Autocrat job from scratch.

  4. Toggled the “Run on form submit” trigger off and back on.

  5. Verified permissions, ownership, and triggers.

  6. Tested across multiple forms and sheets, same behavior everywhere.

Screenshot Example

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The “Link to merged Doc” for Allen, Jessica repeats over multiple new form submissions instead of generating unique merge URLs.

Request

Has anyone else experienced this issue recently (October–November 2025)?
We are currently having to manually run Autocrat for all spreadsheets.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!


Joseph Schmidt

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Nov 6, 2025, 2:00:46 PMNov 6
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Do you want to do a Zoom or Meet?  I'm on EST and available now.  GLUA...@gmail.com



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Anne Marie Halsey

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Nov 10, 2025, 4:54:42 PMNov 10
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Yes! I'm having the exact same problem on one of my autocrat jobs. It's not happening on others though. Would love to know if you've found a fix. 

Joseph Schmidt

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Nov 10, 2025, 5:05:52 PMNov 10
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I would like to see the form and spreadsheet.  Can we do a video and you share your screen or can you duplicate the issue in a copy so I can test it.

I'm Glua.Joe @ gmail.com

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