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 ...

microsoft forms

toszypul
Jan 03, 2022
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>

RobElliott

Silver Contributor

Apr 21, 2020

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
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User

Vinaydeep Ayinapurapu

Copper Contributor

Jan 21, 2021

RobElliott What is the way if it is stand alone form? Any way to check who owns the form?

RobElliott
Silver Contributor
Jan 21, 2021
Vinaydeep Ayinapurapu sorry I don't know of any way to find out who owns a form.

Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User

Forum Discussion

How to find out who created a form

Resources