Forum Discussion
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.
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.
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.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?
- 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
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- 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. - this is a terrible new "feature", it renders the form useless by making it confusing to the user. as far as I can tell, there is no template that doesn't have it, and there is no way to turn it off.
- Yes! We have to be able to turn this off!!!!!
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.
Looking for a solution on this too - little confused how it happens particularly with the following option selected.
Also, looking for how to remove this. It doesn't appear on forms created last week only on any new form I created from today.
Jason
- I am Also running into the same issue. I want to turn off the "Save the responses" button at the end of the Form and I cannot find any way to remove it. I have looked for solutions on the Forms application and with Flow but there is no option to turn this off. Please advise.
Hi VikVid
My guess is that this is a new feature.
I also would like to turn it off , because user's saving forms they've filled in becomes a RECORD and Compliance manager's nightmare.
- Where are the "filled forms" kept?
- how long are they kept for?
- what retention disposal options do we have?
MICROSOFT Forms Product team - please please give us some ADMIN tools, or we'll have to move to a different online forms provider like JotForms.
I tried to figure some of this out:
If you click it the "save response" button, filled in version of the form is saved and accessible via
https://forms.office.com/Pages/DesignPageV2.aspx?prevsubpage=undefined
when you click on the "filled forms" filter.
The ... dots on that filled in form, does have a "remove from my portal" option.
When you click the "remove from my portal" option , if you go back to https://forms.office.com/Pages/DesignPageV2.aspx?prevsubpage=undefined then click on the "My forms" filter, then click on the "recycle bin" button (bottom right) the filled in form IS NOT IN the recyclebin.
Hi all,
I did some playing around and think I found a solution.
I tried one of the template options, "Gain Insights through user research" as shown below:
and noticed that at the end I wasn't prompted to save my response.
I just then edited it to fit what I needed and it still worked - there must be some sort of setting we cannot access when attempting to create from scratch.
Hope this works for you guys.
I also found a work around....
It seems to only happen on new forms I create. All my old forms are fine.
So all I did was saved a copy of one of my old forms and deleted all the questions then saved it as Blank Template. I can now just create a copy of this each time I need a new form until this is resolved.
Hope this helps anyone else.
Hyoogow Workaround will work for anyone who doesn't already have an old form to copy.
Jason
VikVid We came across the same problem with a customer that uses Forms on multiple occasions. This makes it impossible for him to use it anymore so that is really bad. I did some research on the topic and had some hope that there might be a PowerShell solution at the least but as far as I could see, there is nothing in that regard.
This is really, really bad. We need the possibility to turn off this button. Otherwise MS Forms can not be used within many use cases.
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
