Create a Microsoft Power Automate flow for Advanced Forms
The most common scenario for creating a flow with Advanced Forms is to trigger an action in another system when a form response is submitted in Advanced Forms.
This action often automatically sends answers from a form response to another system. This article describes how to set this triggering action using Microsoft Power Automate.
Before you start
Complete the configuration steps described in Configure a Microsoft Power Automate integration with Advanced Forms
Steps
To create a Power Automate flow:
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Open the Power Automate dashboard.
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Click Create in the side menu.
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Click Automated flow.
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Enter a Flow name of your choice.
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Click Skip.
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Search triggers: Advanced Forms.
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Select the trigger: When a form response is submitted.
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Select the relevant form from the list.
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Choose the action you want to happen automatically when submitting a form response.
Example: Send an email containing data from your form response demonstrates a trigger option you can use now.
Example: Send an email containing data from your form response
In this example, you can send an email from Power Automate containing some information from a form response in Advanced Forms.
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Complete steps 1-8 in Steps.
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Search for: Send an email.
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Select the Send an email action for the service you would like to use (for example, the default Power Automate mail service)
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Enter a To address, Subject, and, Body text.
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Using the Dynamic Content window, you can add dynamic content from your form response to the To, Subject, or Body fields.
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Click Save to complete the setup.
Every time the nominated form is submitted, you will receive an email containing the details you set up.