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Anonymous responses on Office forms: is there any way to have their email or name?
Cian Allneranswer above is spot on.
Once you've collected the anonymous results, there's no way to track who submitted what.
If that were possible then someone could trick submitters into thinking the survey is anonymous, and then reverse engineer their ID to use for sinister gain.
If you want to ever cover your bases, might be worthwhile to add a text field for Name and/or Email.
Best wishes and good luck!
Cheers
Damien
Hello Damien_Rosario,
Is there any way to have a person submitting a form to submit it with their name or as anonymous?
Hi John Heck
Hopefully I understand right. The only ways I can think of to do this is to:
1. Set the form to Anonymous and put a field in for Provide your name so that users can choose to put their name in or not. You may even use branching using a Choice question to provide their name where Yes will show a name field and No will skip to the next relevant question.
2. Set your form to Only people in my organization can respond and tick Record name to capture the field (only available for people in your tenancy and does not allow for anonymous).
If you want the option to leave a name or to be anonymous, then go with option 1.
Let me know if I've misunderstood and I can clarify?
Cheers
Damien
Thank you for some really helpful answers.
I want a form I can share with our volunteers, i.e. they don't have an organisational email account but they do want to help us.
I want to capture who completes the form without forcing them to type in their email again and without risking them typing their address wrong.
But it seems if I make the form available to people outside the organisation I lose the option to automatically capture who they are.
I understand with data compliance we can't force people to provide an email. But these are people who we already have their email address, or we wouldn't have been able to send them the link to complete the form.
Can you see any way around this?
Thank you.
Guy
Hello Guy_Boswell
Also in settings, when is set to "Anyone can respond" still we can collect necessary inputs such as Name, Mail ids, etc as different rows, and in quiz forms you can set the points to "0" so that it will not be evaluated but data will be captured in the output sheet.
Hope this may help.
Thank you,
Rohit
