Let people look up their own results.
Public Query is FormHug's self-service results lookup feature. Share exam scores, race results, competition rankings, or application outcomes — each person enters their ID or email and sees only their own record. Works with FormHug forms or an uploaded Excel file. No login required.
Real-world use cases
Built for every time you need to share results at scale
Whether you're running a competition, grading an exam, or publishing application outcomes — FormHug Public Query handles the distribution so you don't have to answer 200 identical emails.
Race & competition results
After a 5K, 10K, or triathlon — share finish times and rankings without mass email. Each participant looks up their own time, placement, and age-group rank by bib number.
Exam scores & course results
Let students and training course participants look up their own grades or certificate status — no student portal, no LMS required. Works with existing Excel gradebooks too.
Registration & event status
Attendees check whether their registration is confirmed, pending, or requires action — without emailing your team. Useful for workshops, camps, and multi-stage sign-ups.
Application outcomes
Publish admission or selection decisions at scale. Applicants look up their result privately without calling the admissions office or waiting for an individual notification.
How it works
Four steps from data to shareable page
Choose to use a FormHug form or import an Excel file
Feature details
Everything you need for private, polished result sharing
Unique ID matching
FormHug shows visitors only the records that match their exact search input. No browsing, no guessing — each person gets exactly their own data.
Field Highlight
Pin a key field — Ranking, Score, Status — to the top of the result with large, colored display. The most important number, front and center.
Privacy Protection
FormHug partially masks sensitive fields. A name like "Emmerson" shows as "Emm*****son" — recognizable to the owner, opaque to anyone else.
Excel import
Already have data in a spreadsheet? Upload your .xlsx file directly (up to 6,000 rows). No need to rebuild your dataset inside FormHug.
Editable fields
Let visitors update specific fields directly from the result page — useful for confirming attendance, updating contact info, or correcting errors.
Shareable URL, no login
Every Public Query page gets its own link (e.g. formhug.ai/os/EOGiNy). Anyone with the link can look up their record — no account required.
Privacy by design
No one sees anyone else's data
The biggest concern with sharing results is accidentally exposing everyone's data at once. Public Query solves this structurally — the page only returns the one record that matches the search input.
You control exactly what's displayed, what's masked, and what can be edited. Fields not included in the display are never accessible to visitors.
Sample result · Participant P001
Let people look up their own results.
No more "what was my score?" emails.
From the blog
Guides for sharing results
7 min read
How to Share Race Results With Participants After a 5K, 10K, or Triathlon
Publish a self-service results lookup so every finisher checks their own time and ranking in seconds.
Read guide →7 min read
How to Share Exam Scores and Competition Results Without Exposing Everyone's Data
Publish a results page that shows each person only their own record — in about ten minutes.
Read guide →8 min read
How to Share Training Course Results With Students Without a Student Portal
Let each student see only their own grade or certificate status — no LMS, no mass email.
Read guide →11 min read
How to Build a Lookup Page from an Excel Spreadsheet
Turn any .xlsx file into a self-service lookup page. Each person enters their ID and sees only their own row.
Read guide →