Forum Discussion
Forms: Notification when answers have been given
- Adding notification feature is currently in our backlog. Thanks for taking the time and sharing your feature request with us.
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I am waiting to roll out Office 365 forms in my organisation, this product will help a lot of staff with self creation of forms. This notification of a response email is an essential feature, when can we expect it to be available?
- Nakul MadaanHi Frank - Notification feature is in our to-do list. We are currently trying to understand all the end user scenario for notification feature. Would love to understand your scenarios in more details, please message me your email id and i will schedule a skype call to understand your forms quiz/survey scenarios and to capture your all feature ASKs.
It would be very helpful if the results of the form, the entries, were sent to the individual filling out the forn. For example, they enter their info on the form, click submt, then they get a verification with their entries on the form as back up.
FWIW, our primary scenario is to provide a structured info capture tool to replace free-form input we would have to receive in an email. This is a frequent use case for how requests are made between departments.
As a potential solution the option to add to the form a static user, or distro list, indicating the notification recipient would be sufficient, provided that this email was sent at the time form submittal.
Alternately, if we could fire a Flow based on creation of a new form response, we could manage it from there. Flow would actually be more flexible, but either would work for our needs.
Thanks.
- ... and I just now saw the July 26th post about Flow support. This should satisfy our use case.
Thanks much!
First, since compliments are rare in this arena, I love what I see in Microsoft Forms so far; vastly superior to Excel Surveys and SharePoint 2013's Surveys, so great job!
Second, I'll add my voice to the list of those that see a need for notifications. As amazing as this tool is, the lack of of notification features pretty much ends any serious proposal for its use in my organization. Eager for the day that this is included!
MS Flow now supports Forms which will allow you to create a Flow to send a notification messsage., see https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Forms-Blog/New-features-in-Microsoft-Forms-July-2017/ba-p/90283
