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Turn off "Save the response"
Hello everyone, is it possible to turn off the feature "Save the response"?
- Thanks for your feedbacks. Forms has added the setting to control the save response option. You should be able to view the change very soon.
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It is sadly typical of Microsoft to come up with these "cool new features" then foist them on their unsuspecting but paying customers without the ability to disable them. Time and time again there is uproar from the user community to demand a way to disable this "feature" that someone obviously thought was nifty, but no actual end-user wants.
Honestly, the wording of the question is very confusing - someone mentioned working with older people and they were getting confused by this. I've been in IT for 30 years and I was confused, not knowing for certain whether the data I was entering was being saved into the form I had created! I find it stunning that not only are the people MS hires to do this development work writing wording like this, but that it passes peer and management review and makes it all the way through QA without anyone looking at it and wondering exactly what that wording means.
Having read through this thread and learned that it allows a form submitter to edit his responses, I now wonder what MS expects us to do with those edited responses:
- Can test takers correct their responses after conferring with other students/source materials to pass their exams?
- Do Flows get triggered again when results are edited?
- What impact does this have on the rest of the Power Apps environment?
At least this time MS A) did respond with an option to disable it, and B) did so in a fairly reasonable amount of time. Usually, the response to complaints like this fall on deaf ears for years (giving the option for Excel to import numbers as text to not drop leading zeros, giving an option to not default to importing numbers in scientific notation... Go look up those requests from more than a decade ago that have gone unanswered.)
RuoyingLMicrosoft
Thanks for your feedbacks. Forms has added the setting to control the save response option. You should be able to view the change very soon.- If we allow users to save their response can they edit the filled form?
Shawn1010 yes they can and it edits the originally submitted form, it doesn'#t create a new response.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User.
Intranet, SharePoint and Power Platform Manager (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)
Thanks a lot for the update. I can see and use the option already and it does exactly what it should do, the save button does no longer appear.
This is great and I really do appreciate how quick this has been updated so that it caters to the needs of the community!
- Can you share where you see this option and what it is titled?
- DingkunXieYes, we removed the word 'anonymous' from the message and provided a setting to allow the form owner to disable 'Save response'. The fix has been pushed to production.
- Many thanks. Why not set the default to disable that function? Nobody really want to use that.
VikVid
Same issue in our company. The "Save the response" button is confusing the users. When answering an anonymous survey f.e. why user should save the response and where? Users do not have a MS Forms account. Users do not want to login in MS365 and find it strange when they answer an anonymous survey.
Please take that out or implement an option to enable that feature. But please not enabled by default.
A good thing: when I make a copy of old surveys, that button is not in. Yeah.- Yeah this is creating a lot of confusion for our form submitters. We don't want them redirecting to the Forms homepage either.
I AGREE. Have to have the ability to turn off this feature.
Need the ability to disable both the View Responses and Save Responses (depending on your settings) as not all forms are 'surveys' and sometimes just need to submit. It would be nice if the Submit Another Response was a button not just a link.
- I'd just like to add my frustration to this discussion.
It's absolutely insane to force a change like this without a box to check to enable it. I have the same problem. As a teacher I use quizzes as regular official exams / tests for classes... I need URGENTLY to switch that off. Students will save answers and send them around?
Otherwise I would need to write (and correct) new tests on paper! This is insane. Test weeks just started now... Is there a quick fix?
Thanks a lot for getting back to me that quickly. We are currently in big trouble because of this feature / or as we say "bug".
This is exactly what our students did and will do - and No, without the save-feature we did never found snapshots, to be very clear here.As described, we use Forms with success in the educational environment for multiple-choice tests and similar purposes.
We set the test duration in such a way that students have no time to take snapshots, and further the screens are monitored by test supervisors. We also ensure that no screen recording software is installed or running.
However, when the questions and answers are presented in such a way at the end, like on a silver platter - after the test submission - it just naturally tempts our students to pass them on to subsequent classes.
It is very clear. Even if not everything is graded or rated, it still greatly benefits all the following classes. This is of course unacceptable for the examination commission, and we have currently switched back to paper-based exams to address this issue.It would be a great relief if the save button could be selected ONLY as an optional feature in the settings rather than being enabled by default.
Our requirement for tests/quizzes is that questions and answers should not be accessible to anyone until the quiz owner allows it.
At the very least, they should remain hidden until the quiz is graded and manually released for viewing by the quiz owner only.It should be possible to permanently hide the questions and answers since some tests are reused every year. Quiz participants should only be able to see their scores.
For the purpose of discussing test results or examinations under controlled conditions, the quiz owner should have the ability to unlock and make them visible if needed.
Cheers,
Marco
Please remove this button for anonymous forms
- DingkunXie
A clarification of this new feature, the responder does not actually save their responses under their account. Instead, they receive a page link that points to their submitted response, which they can save. The responses are still saved in the form owner's storage. I had a reply about this complaint in another thread, which I've pasted here for awareness - "Here's an update on the latest progress. The product team has decided to adjust the wording of the 'Save the response' and 'Save and edit later' buttons and will no longer mention that responses will remain anonymous. We hope this change will address some users' needs for collecting user information through the 'Anyone can respond' form. We expect this change to be deployed to production in the next few weeks. As for another type of feedback requesting a setting to enable/disable the 'Save the response' feature for form owners, the product team is aware of this need and is currently discussing possible changes. We anticipate having discussion results in the next few weeks."
- One of the horrible things about this implementation is that when you click the link it asks you to log in or create an account. It seems like in order to save it you NEED an account. If this is your way to have folks create AD accounts, it is TERRIBLE!
You should give the form author to disable the feature on each form, that would be great. If you FIX the UI so that if you enable the feature it lets you know that you should save the link and it doesn't actually put a copy in your AD account, that would be great too. Or does it? You shouldn't have to guess on these things, and based on the justifiied comments, this needs to be revisited asap. We are trying to avoid this by using OLD forms.
We need to be able to disable the button to allow people to save responses. It is confusing and does not seem to produce the expected outcome.
Please remove or tell us how to remove it.
