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Boost Productivity: Share Forms for Effortless Collaboration

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junyuB
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Oct 31, 2023

Collaboration is a valuable feature of Forms that can significantly boost productivity. Multiple users can seamlessly work together in the same form, facilitating efficient teamwork and data collection. In this blog, I will show you how to add collaborators to your form/quiz. You can also try to add collaborators from this template. Now let’s dive in!

 

Share a form/quiz to collaborate

To add a collaborator to your form/quiz, you need to first open a form/quiz. Next, click on the "..." icon located in the upper right corner. From the menu, choose "Collaborate or duplicate," to get a link that you can share with others. (Note: The “Share link to collaborate” option is only available for Office 365 Education and work account. To access it, you must sign in with your school or work account)

 

Generate collaboration link

Permission control
Once the collaboration link is generated, you will have the flexibility to adjust the permissions to control who can collaborate. You can select from three different types of permission, as shown in the image below.

 

Permission control

Initial icon in collaborate

At the top of the form/quiz you’ve shared to collaborate and next to each question, you will see the initials of individuals who are currently making edits.

 

Initial icon in collaboration

Disable collaboration
To stop users from collaborating on your form/quiz, you can select the trash can button next to the collaboration link to disable collaboration. Once the collaboration link has been removed, it will become inoperative for anyone attempting to click or tap on it.

 

Disable collaboration

Why wait? Give the collaboration feature a try and begin with this amazing template!

Updated Oct 31, 2023
Version 2.0

3 Comments

  • Hi,

    why can´t I change "owner" of a form, to another owner?

    I have a few forms that I will set to another owner.

     

  • m36five Thanks for your suggestion. I will discuss with the team and see how we can introduce data retention related information. And for upload files externally, we have this feature in our roadmap, will introduce it once being shipped.

  • m36five's avatar
    m36five
    Iron Contributor

    I appreciate how you are constantly working to improve the product. We are really hoping that introduction of data governance/retention/versioning is on your backlog. We're also anxious for the ability to upload files externally, which has over 10K upvotes on the feedback portal. Thanks!