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mposs
Feb 24, 2020Copper Contributor
Postal Address Validation
Is there a way to use Bing Maps API or Google API to validate physical addresses? I want to avoid user input errors in my form. When I add a "location" in SharePoint, it auto-populates the address as...
Damien_Rosario
Feb 25, 2020Silver Contributor
Hi mposs
Standard MS Forms can't do that whilst the user is in the form (I haven't heard of Forms Pro being able to do it either but I am not a user of Pro).
You could possibly try taking the details once submitted, and using Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Flow) to vet the address and then correct any inaccurate input via this process.
EDIT: Just had a thought, you could also put a hyper link to Bing or Google maps for users to validate their address themselves and then they can copy it into the form. It's a low tech workaround.
Hope that helps?
Cheers
Damien