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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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- Yes! We have to be able to turn this off!!!!!
Jumping on this thread too as I'm building out and moving forms from Tenant A to Tenant B. The behavior exists in the source tenant but I cannot replicate the same feature in the new tenant. The requirement is to prevent the form submitter from saving the info after submit. Since that is now not an option Forms for this use case is completely useless.
It's one thing to not allow a feature, but to take it away after it's in use is evil. Short of paying for another product or creating a full stack solution I have no other options for my organization. Having this feature back would be VERY helpful.- I would also like to know. My work intended to use MS Forms for exam purposes. But this option would give the exam takers the ability to save the entire exam and potentially pass it around. If I created the form as a quiz, this option should not be default. Or at least give us the option to turn it off.
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
