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Completing Website/Portal Questionnaires with the Browser Extension

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Written by Shannon DeLange
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Vanta Questionnaire Automation provides tooling for completing various types of questionnaires. In this article, we'll walk through how to complete a portal or website questionnaire.

Install the Extension

Chrome

  • Open the Vanta - Questionnaire Automation extension in the Chrome Web Store.

  • Click Add to Chrome

  • The extension will inform you that it can read and change all your website data.

  • To approve, click Add extension.

Microsoft Edge

  • Open the Vanta - Questionnaire Automation extension in the Chrome Web Store.

  • Click Allow extensions from other stores

  • Click Allow

  • Click Add to Chrome

  • Click Add Extension

Brave

  • Open the Vanta - Questionnaire Automation extension in the Chrome Web Store.

  • Click Add to Brave

  • Click Add Extension

Troubleshooting

  • Extension cannot authenticate to Vanta

    • Double-check you're logged in at app.vanta.com

    • Check chrome://policy to ensure that your administrators have not set Extension Settings to restrict the usage of extensions.

  • Text selection has limited functionality on Google Docs and Office 365

    • Questions can be copied/pasted/typed into the extension search

  • Text selection doesn't work on tabs that were already open before installing the extension

    • Refreshing these tabs will enable text selection for those tabs

Automate Portal and Website Questionnaires with the Browser Extension: Public Preview

Install the Vanta Browser Extension

You’ll need to install the Vanta - Questionnaire Automation extension from the Chrome Web Store.

For Chrome

For Microsoft Edge

For Brave

Import Questions from a Web-Based Questionnaire

  • Navigate to the website where your questionnaire is located

  • Open the Vanta - Questionnaire Automation extension

  • Click Complete a web-based questionnaire

  • Click Create a questionnaire and fill in the required info

    • Or choose an existing questionnaire from your Vanta account

  • Click Start scan

    • Visit and scan each section of the form if there are multiple pages

  • Click Import questions to begin answering them

Edit and Collaborate on Responses in Vanta

  • Open the questionnaire in Vanta

  • Review, edit, and collaborate on answers, just like you would in a spreadsheet.

Place Answers Back into the Website

  • Return to the website where the questionnaire lives

  • Open the Vanta browser extension

  • Select the questionnaire and click Fill answers

  • Vanta will place answers into the visible questions on the page

    • If the form has multiple sections, navigate to each one and click Refresh list, then Fill answers

Please note: The browser extension is in public preview and may not support all response types. Unsupported fields must be filled in manually. Please share your feedback if you encounter any issues.

Handle Conditional Questions

  • Go to the page or section where new questions appear

  • Open the browser extension

  • Select the questionnaire and click Import questions

  • Vanta will scan for and import the new questions

  • Review and collaborate on answers in Vanta as usual

Mark the Questionnaire as Complete

  • In Vanta, open your questionnaire

  • Click Update status in the top right corner and select Complete

  • Optional: Sync any new or updated answers to your answer library

Please note: All answers must be marked as 'Approved' before marking the questionnaire as complete. Only approved answers will sync to your library.

Answer One-Off Questions on a Web Page

  • Open the Vanta extension on the relevant page

  • Click on the question you want to answer

  • The extension will show a Vanta AI suggestion and related answers from your library.

  • Copy the preferred answer and paste it into the web form