Microsoft forms responses are not syncing automatically to onedrive/sharepoint

Anonymous
2024-10-15T02:03:32+00:00

We used to have an excel system running off the final line of the excel sheet generated by forms.

I have a new tenant and forms is using the new GUI

I send some responses inside forms, but the results are not synced/updated inside my sharepoint/onedrive excel sheet automatically.

It will only work if i click on open result in excel inside the webpage, which will then only update my excel in sharepoint/onedrive.

Please advise how i can get it working again.

Thanks

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-02-21T14:54:06+00:00

    I have many PowerBi reports connected to form responses in excel and now my dashboards will not automatically refresh because form responses don't sync without opening the responses workbook. I cannot understand how MS thought this was a sensible decision. I sure hope they are making this an urgent priority! Next step is to bombard MS support.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-17T08:36:24+00:00

    Posting to increase the visibility of this topic! MS needs to review this update!

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-17T08:13:38+00:00

    Terrible decision and affecting so many users, this is a stepback for Microsoft. I'm no sure if this is to force users into Powerautomate or get more copilot licenses to enable similar automation in the future.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-25T22:14:36+00:00

    Frustratingly, all my forms are now no longer working. I underastand the workaroun by using Power Automate, however this is a huge step backwards. I have a large number of forms where I now have to create a new step to do somethign that used to be automatic. All my realtime syncs have stopped working!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-21T16:51:03+00:00

    Appreciating this thread! Also very confused by the change. I know the reasoning was something about making the synchronisation more stable/reliant, but I don't think we ever had any problems with the way it was synchronising before -- maybe others did?

    I'm reluctant to start creating powerautomate flows for all the forms, but with no sign of reverting this back or fixing the new version to synch the way the old version did, we may not have a choice. I suppose the flow could save new forms directly to a new spreadsheet or directly to the powerbi data model.

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