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Creation of folders within Forms
Hello, I know this has already been asked, but there has been no answer to satisfy everyone's need. It is very important that you allow users to create folders within forms to organize their Forms dashboard. The whole point of Office 365 and OneDrive is organization and Forms does not live up to this. Whether in business, or education, it is extremely important to be able to organize our documents, or in this case, Forms, so that we can easily find them. The search feature is good, but I, and most other Forms users, have so many forms that we don't always recall the name of the specific form that we need to either resend, or duplicate to share with another person, or institution. I work with 12 campuses and send survey forms on every training that I give. I am able to copy the same survey form, but I have to keep the results separate. If I could create a campus folder and inside a Survey folder, quiz folder, etc... this would make my life and others easier.
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I am Amazed this has been a request since 2016, the link for voting has well over 2600. in 2017 Microsoft responded with some improvements (but not the folders that were asked for). To be blunt, No the improvements made in are not the solution this very request and did not address the scope of the problem. This is a frustrating problem that continues to manifest itself. Organizing forms into folders allows the user to group them as necessary. is an absolute necessity and SERIOUS over site during the development of this solution. In searching the forum I discovered almost 30 requests with a low number of votes for this functionality perhaps clicking and voting for ALL of them will call attention to the problem. This request is #3 with the 2600+ interesting that most of the issues fixed have 200 or so votes, is this lost because MS addressed it in 2017??..
Come on Microsoft, aren't you listening anyway?
Some kind of answer to this request is the least you should give your customers.
Its 2020 and this basic file management requirement is still not done.
Get the Basics right
We are beyond 2 years and counting on this request. What is the point of these forums if Microsoft does not address the most popular requests?
I agree with Gordon_Chiu! It is time to move on and to add this missing feature.
Jesus Morales bumping thread...I do find it very lacking that their is no option to organize anything within the dashboard. I've attempted to move particular Quizes from Forms to a shared channel within Teams, but when I have attempted this it does not allow me to reverse the decision. For organization this is vital as the amount of documents I am now housing is becoming very cumbersome.
Nogoatsnoglory and there is exactly the same problem with Power Automate as well. I now have something like 300 flows, some for training, some live, some closed but no way to organise them in folders. Forms and Power Automate are gaining traction all the time and really, really need this folder ability.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User.
Jesus Morales I agree. I saw that this request was opened a while ago. We are by the end of January and I haven't seen anyone from MS giving us a prospect. Do you know where to address this to receive a response?
On the other hand, I have seen that MS Teams alows to create folders and when you want to move a form the folders created there appear on the right hand side of the screen. I don't know whether that could be the solution
manuhernandez - just checked out the MS Teams option and this appears that it might be the way forward for us. It would be nice to be able to see a list of forms in MS Teams though.
Jesus Morales - I'll add my vote too. I work for a University that are starting to use forms and already unless I use some sort of naming convention it is going to be difficult to find the right form.
Jesus Morales I agree. There needs to be a filing system of folder within Microsoft Forms.
I whole-heartedly agree that a method for organizing Forms is absolutely necessary. I initially viewed Forms as an awesome classroom tool, however I am now discovering that I am spending far too much time locating previously made forms. Help MS!
Jesus Morales Do you know if anyone in this thread or the many others I have seen regarding the same topic is a Microsoft person who can actually make this happen? How do we get this in front of someone who can act?
