Forum Discussion
MelH14
Aug 20, 2020Copper Contributor
Sending a receipt using forms
Hi there I am new to using forms and we are trying to set up a form for receipting payments received, however we wanted to know if it was possible to 1) generate a unique reference number 2) e...
RobElliott
Aug 20, 2020Silver Contributor
MelH14 with Microsoft Forms on its own no this isn't possible. You would need to use a flow in Power Automate to grab the response details, save the response to a list in SharePoint with a column for Reference Number, add a delay for 10 seconds, update the item in the SharePoint list adding the ID number of the list item to the Reference Number column, then send an email to the submitter with the reference number. We do this in our company for IT support tickets.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User