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 ...

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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=<Here

-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 https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer to run this request to retrieve the username and email address of the owner https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/<UserID>

toszypul

Brass Contributor

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=<Here

-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 https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/graph-explorer to run this request to retrieve the username and email address of the owner https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/<UserID>

LMelito

Copper Contributor

Sep 30, 2022

somebody buy this guy beer!

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