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.
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?
MicrosoftIt 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
- Thanks Dean. This looks quite useful. I still hope that the Forms team decidea to build email notifications in, but will investigate using a Flow trigger in the meantime.
this is exactly the functionality I need - which is what GDocs are supplying at the moment:
"Google Docs can also send you instant email notifications as soon as people fill and submit your online form. Here’s how:
Create a http://spreadsheets.google.com/newform?hl=en in Google Docs, if you haven’t done that yet, add the necessary fields to the form and save your changes. Now go back to Google Docs and open the spreadsheet corresponding to that particular form.
Choose Tools – > Notification Rules and select the option that says Notify me when “a user submits a form.” You can also set how frequently you would like to be notified – if you have created a “Contact Me” form, the “email right away” may be a good choice but for mass polls and surveys, you may use the daily digest feature."
This is exactly what we are looking for too. Is there an ETA when this will be available. We recently migrated to Office 365 and our offices are requesting the feature now. Thanks, joe
Hi, many thanks for responding and offering to contact me, I have messaged you my details, hopefully speak to you soon, Frank
