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BerwickLee
Copper Contributor
Dec 05, 2023

How to record respondent without recording respondent ID

i am giving out the Form to a group of employee.

i need to track who didn't submitted the form without marking it down with the collected data ( as they concern about privacy). 

How to make this work?

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  • Rob_Elliott's avatar
    Rob_Elliott
    Bronze Contributor

    BerwickLee if it's a large number of recipients, in the hundreds for example, we do this with a list in SharePoint of all the recipients, usually with the Title column containing the user's email address and a Date/Time column for the date the user responded. When each response is submitted a flow in Power Automate grabs the email address and the flow has a get items action with a filter query of the email address. If it's found (which it will be) then the date/column is updated with the date. You can then easily filter the list or have a view that shows which rows do not have a date, i.e. they have not responded. As part of the same flow you could save the response into another SharePoint list for backup & audit reasons. This is something we always do at my company.

     

    Rob
    Los Gallardos
    Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User.
    Principal Consultant, SharePoint and Power Platform WSP (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)

    • berwicklft's avatar
      berwicklft
      Copper Contributor

      Rob_Elliott   thank you for your reply.

       

      but it will also record down the email into the excel right?

      thats what i dont want to

      some employee fears about that their opinion can be tracked.

      so i just want to mark down who handed in, without marking the username or any identifier into the response.

      • peiyezhu's avatar
        peiyezhu
        Bronze Contributor
        some employee fears about that their opinion can be tracked.

        just want to mark down who handed in

        Looks conflict.
        If you don not track employees' name or other ID,how to markdwon who.handed in.
  • peiyezhu's avatar
    peiyezhu
    Bronze Contributor
    without marking it down with the collected data
    ?

    I guess you need download the Excel sheet to figure out who has submitted or not.

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