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How to find out who created a form
someone created a MS Form and embeded it on a sharepoint online page. The form is giving an error now but no one knows who created it and I can only find the URL to the form, nothing else.
How do I find the owner or take ownership so we can work on the form?
thank you
Jason_B1025 I was able to get the ID of the user with a bit of a hack. Here are sample steps:
-Access the form using this designer direct URL https://forms.office.com/Pages/DesignPage.aspx?origin=shell#FormId=<YourFormID>
-Inspect the network traces. You will find a request similar to this
https://forms.office.com/formapi/api/72f988bf-86f1-41af-91ab-2d7cd011db47/users/e5351c57-d147-418e-89ab-3a3d50c235b6/light/forms('v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR1ccNeVH0Y5Bias6PVDCNbZUOUg4TkZJUEswSVQ1ODhNNkpHVVlMMldPTi4u')?$select=id,...
-The ID in bold is the AAD ID of the user
-Use Graph Explorer - Microsoft Graph to run this request to retrieve the username and email address of the owner https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/<UserID>
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If you have access to M365 defender then here is another method: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/microsoftforms/is-there-a-way-to-find-out-who-owns-a-form/1066108
A little trick my boss just showed me. Go to the URL of the form in your browser. and use f12 - ownerId is in there this URL explains it Who created this Microsoft Form? | It's Partly Cloudy (itspartlycloudy.com) Jason_B1025
Jason_B1025 I was able to get the ID of the user with a bit of a hack. Here are sample steps:
-Access the form using this designer direct URL https://forms.office.com/Pages/DesignPage.aspx?origin=shell#FormId=<YourFormID>
-Inspect the network traces. You will find a request similar to this
https://forms.office.com/formapi/api/72f988bf-86f1-41af-91ab-2d7cd011db47/users/e5351c57-d147-418e-89ab-3a3d50c235b6/light/forms('v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR1ccNeVH0Y5Bias6PVDCNbZUOUg4TkZJUEswSVQ1ODhNNkpHVVlMMldPTi4u')?$select=id,...
-The ID in bold is the AAD ID of the user
-Use Graph Explorer - Microsoft Graph to run this request to retrieve the username and email address of the owner https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/<UserID>- This is a life saver and should be pinned as the solution..
- Hello, I'm feeling a little stymied in attempting to make headway with your advice here. I'm not exactly a noobie when it comes to network traces but it has not been part of my tool box for some time. I've tried WPA and Wireshark and simply not finding anything that corresponds to the request as mentioned in your response. Hopefully you or someone else viewing this thread might provided some additional details as to process and tools used if they have been successful in gathering an owner or group GUID following this routine. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
solman2k Same here, I'm not finding /formapi/api in the network trace.
- somebody buy this guy beer!
I was able to find this post about transferring ownership.
Because this users was disable, I had to re-enable and add back to AD groups. its been 24 hours but I still don't see any groups to move the form to 😞
May have to open a MS ticket.... 😞
Jason_B1025 if they embedded it on a SharePoint page then you can look at the version history of that page to find out who it was. Go to Site Pages and click the 3 dots next to the page and select Version History.
Rob
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Microsoft Power Automate Community Super UserRobElliott What is the way if it is stand alone form? Any way to check who owns the form?
Vinaydeep Ayinapurapu sorry I don't know of any way to find out who owns a form.
Rob
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RobElliott Thanks I was able to find out who created the form, it was a terminated employee.
I was able to reset the password and get into the account and see the form.
How do I move it to another user? When the termed employees account is deleted will the form be deleted too?
Thanks,jb
