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VikVid
May 15, 2023Copper Contributor
Turn off "Save the response"
Hello everyone, is it possible to turn off the feature "Save the response"?
- Jul 04, 2023Thanks for your feedbacks. Forms has added the setting to control the save response option. You should be able to view the change very soon.
bshepard
Aug 15, 2023Copper Contributor
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.)