Forum Discussion
Allow form respondents to save and continue to fill the form later
My comment refers to this voting: https://microsoftforms.uservoice.com/forums/386451-welcome-to-microsoft-forms-suggestion-box/suggestions/18447406-allow-form-respondents-to-save-and-continue-to-fil
In our company we use sharepoint and MS 365 Business every day. MS Forms is very intuitive and esasy to handle, thats great! I made a long survey on sustainability topics to our members. Then I got feedback that in many cases more than one person in the adressed member companies have to work together according to their expertise... so they need the option to save the survey, send it to another colleague who can conitnue answering the question... Right now I have to look to alternative tools to fullfill this very important option. But I would prefer to continue my survey (where I already put more than one week of effort) in MS Forms. Is there already any timeline, when Mircrosoft will implement this function?
Best regards from Germany
Matthias
- Great ask. We are tracking this as 2 separate items. The first is save & resume, where a user could save their progress and resume the response later. The second item is collaboration for a form responses, where multiple people could collaborate on response vs today where you can only collaborate at form creation time.
The first ask, save & resume, is something we are actively discussing but no timeline to share at this time. The second is not in short/medium term plans, but might be something we consider in longer term
Thanks,
-jon
Microsoft Forms - Senior Program manager- Dear Jon,
thank you for the reply!
- first item: please keep me updated on your progress.
- second item: not exactly what I would like to read 😉 I hope that MS will recognice the importance of that feature and will not lose market share to Google Forms or other Survey Tools in ignoring this topic... If you need more arguemts to push the second topic as well, please ask me.
Best regards,
Matthias Jon_Kay Do you have any news on when the "Save and Resume Later" feature for Forms will be available? Many thanks
Not at this time.
We will publish updates on the public roadmap when appropriate.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=Forms%2CIn%20development
- And here we are, years later and still no sign of this. Forms really does feel like its not got a team working on it. It's missing so many basic functions.
Jon_Kay I'm disappointed a "save and return" function hasn't been implemented after being requested for such a long time. I want to use MS Forms because it's seamless at my organization, but as others have mentioned, I'll need to resort to SurveyMonkey.
Lack of this feature is like not being able to save my documents in Excel or Word.
Another indicator how Microsoft doesn't understand or believe in collaboration and workflow.
Amazing.
Agree. the Save & Resume feature is crucial and should be prioritized!
BGossard I am in the same situation. We just designed 160 questions survey that takes over 30 minutes to complete. My staff would want to have the feature of saving and resuming their surveys over a period of time. It boggles my mind that almighty Microsoft overlooked this feature. Please hurry with the fixes.
Thanks,
EB
EBottahhaisla It's madness not to have a save and continue later button for a long form. A simple change but now we've wasted a lot of time creating a form and will need to use another tool.
- I too would like to see a Save and Continue Later option added to MS Forms - especially since they've been integrated somewhat into MS Teams.
Hi, Matthias1234
Here is new option "Allow respondents edit their responses".
https://www.microsoft.com/ja-jp/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124819
Have you tried it yet?
thanks for your message. When I click on your link, I got this:
I tried to make a Forms formular with "save and edit/send later", but I cannot find this Button/Option. How exactly does it work?
Im looking forward to read from you.
Best regards,
Matthias
Matthias1234 in your Form click Settings then select the "Allow respondents to edit their responses" checkbox:
Rob
Los Gallardos
Intranet, SharePoint and Power Platform Manager (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)
Jason Bristow the new feedback portal for Forms which has replaced UserVoice is at https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/forum/0ab9de26-ff1b-ec11-b6e7-0022481f8472
Rob
Los Gallardos
Intranet, SharePoint and Power Platform Manager (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)- Thank you!
I found the post here:
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/f911c270-d01c-ec11-b6e7-0022481f8945
Matthias1234
Just to say I am another person who also thinks this feature would be extremely useful 😊Another perfect example of Microsoft launching an underwhelming product to business customers and doing no further development on it.
Why not a simple option to save and resume? So easy to implement for 365 users who are signed in, partial responses tied with their account. But it seems no-one at MS considered this a useful feature to implement and need it to be pointed out by Joe Bloggs (over a year and a half ago in this case).
Keep up the good work guys!
- Microsoft Customer Voice, which is the old Forms Pro, has this feature.
