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Completing Website/Portal Questions with the Browser Extension

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Written by Shannon DeLange
Updated this week

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 let you know 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

Answering Questionnaires in the Portal

  • Go to Questionnaires

  • Click + Add a questionnaire

  • Please provide the company URL and questionnaire name, set the questionnaire type to the website link, and provide the Portal URL.

  • Optionally, fill in a due date, owner, or description. All of these fields can be edited later.

  • Adding the questionnaire into Vanta allows you to keep track of progress, even though the questionnaire itself will be answered using the extension.

  • Click Continue

  • Go to the portal/website URL where the questionnaire is located.

  • Open the Vanta - Questionnaire Automation extension on the page.

  • Select a question on the page to be answered.

  • The browser extension will display the Vanta AI answer (if possible) and related questions from your answer library.

  • Copy the answer you would like to use.

  • Paste the answer into the field on the page.

  • Once all questions are complete, return to the questionnaire in Vanta and update the status.

Automate Portal and Website Questionnaires with the Browser Extension (Beta)

Vanta’s Questionnaire Automation makes it easier to complete security questionnaires especially those hosted in web portals. This article walks through how to install the browser extension and use it to import, answer, and place responses directly into a web-based questionnaire.

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

Troubleshooting Common Issues

The extension isn’t authenticating to Vanta

  • Make sure you’re signed in at app.vanta.com

  • Visit chrome://policy to check if your admin has restricted extension settings

Text selection doesn’t work in Google Docs or Office 365

  • You can copy, paste, or type the question into the extension’s search bar

Text selection doesn’t work on open tabs

  • Refresh the tab to enable text selection

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

Note: The extension is in beta and may not support all response types. Unsupported fields will need to be filled manually. Please share feedback if you run into any!

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

Note: All answers must be marked Approved before marking the questionnaire 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