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
    2025-01-08T19:19:59+00:00

    We have done something similar with PowerAutomate and 2 Excel files (the online from Forms and another one that we created to download to). The solution is thankfully working! The Created Excel is what is linked to our PowerBi dashboards.

    We run it through a Teams location because 365 for SharePoint is not enabled at our organization for some reason. We haven't seen an issue with it being maintained in the Teams location thus far.

    Can you please tell me more about the download option? I used Power automate.

    My flow: is get a row from excel

    Hi,

    Okay!! I will change that to add a row and see if it works. But still logically thinking that we still have to open the Excel in the shared drive to get it synced right? Just we don't have to open Power Automate if we change the feature to add a row instead of get a row??

    Sorry for asking so many questions as I am so confused and frustrated. I am only data manager for a small non profit organization. I am trying to understand what to do.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-08T19:21:49+00:00

    yes we updated the PA to be "add a row"

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-08T19:28:44+00:00

    yes we updated the PA to be "add a row"

    Thanks so much! I will try a test one and see if it works. Did you change anything in the Excel thing?

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-13T09:52:34+00:00

    I have also has this creapy issue, I am using one sheet for collecting data from responses, and two more for calculating data.

    I have "add row" to dummyTable every time response comes, excel does not update cells with calculations until I manually open the file. Excel is on OneDrive.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-13T11:45:50+00:00

    Hi Raj,

    I'm going to try not to be rude, but I think you should withdraw your reply.

    Microsoft has changed their sync with Excel, and now Excel does not automatically sync every time a response is submitted from Forms. That's clear.

    In this post, all of us here are looking for a solution through Power Automate to automatically sync in Excel every time a Forms response is submitted.

    Sorry again if you think I'm being rude.

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