Microsoft Forms – Make it easy to see that a question has branching logic

By Adam Cogan in Microsoft, Microsoft Forms 0 Comment

We run forms frequently and this morning we had a problem. There was a question with branching logic enabled and this caused a couple of issues:

  • It didn’t show the last few questions of the form that I expected to be there (so I thought that there was a bug)
  • When I checked the form by going into the editor, all the questions were there
  • I assumed that there was branching logic in the form but all the questions only had an option to “add branching” which I interpreted as there was no branching configured
Figure: I had to click through a lot of questions to work out that I had branching turned on for 1 question, which caused ½ my form to be invisible

Suggestion #1: Add an option to add a progress bar to the form so that people completing the form know that there may be more questions

Figure: I can’t submit the form because question #7 has branching logic, hide the submit button and add a progress bar in the red box

Suggestion #2: When a question has branching turned on, make it obvious for the person editing the form

  1. Change dropdown text from:

Add branching

                To

Edit branching

  1. Add an icon to the bottom bar so that you don’t have to drill down to discover that the question has branching
Figure: Make it obvious that a question has branching turned on so I don’t need to drill into “more settings”

Microsoft Forms and Delve – Help me find the Forms Responses (aka surveys) I have answered

By Adam Cogan in Delve, Microsoft, Microsoft Forms 0 Comment

When I fill in forms for my company, I should be able to find each one (just like I do a Microsoft Word doc I created).

I understand that a Form is not a file stored in a Document Library like other Office docs, but I do think you could hack something so it could be surfaced.

Figure: In this view I should be able to see the Microsoft Forms responses I’ve submitted

Help me find the Teams that contain my forms

By Piers Sinclair in Microsoft Forms 0 Comment

When I navigate to https://forms.microsoft.com I see all the Microsoft Teams. Even ones, with no Forms in them, or which have been inactive forever. That’s a lot of visual noise.

Moreover, the Teams seem to be randomly ordered.  It would be nice if they were ordered by last updated by default and we could choose a different ordering (e.g. Alphabetical) if we wanted.

Help me be able to find the team easier by 

  • Hiding Teams with 0 forms
  • Allowing Teams to be ordered by last updated and alphabetically.
Figure: See red box – There are a bunch of teams with 0 forms, they should all be hidden by default!

Automatically move a Microsoft Form created from a template into a Team

By Piers Sinclair in Microsoft Forms 0 Comment

When I create a Microsoft Form from a template, I must follow an arduous process to get the Form into the right team so we can track the data.

First, it goes into my personal teams, then I must move it to a team, then I need to add it to a tab, then I must move the excel file to the folder I want!

Instead, there should be an option to choose which team and folder the form goes in.

See this video for the current steps, I’m proposing that most of these steps should be automated:

Figure: Save me from teaching people to do all these steps because they never remember!

Help me order results by the order we define the options in

By Piers Sinclair in Microsoft Forms 0 Comment

I think this would be affecting every Microsoft Forms customer who reads the results. 
When I look at results on the Microsoft Form, they can be ordered alphabetically, or by user, or by date filled. However, I cannot order them by the order I wrote the original questions in.

Therefore, I currently solve this by prefixing every question with a number, so it orders by the number.

Instead, there should be an option to sort by the order of the options (and it should be the default order).

Figure: As a workaround, we use numbers to order by option type, but it would be better if this was built-in

Microsoft Forms results should show in SharePoint news

By Adam Cogan in Microsoft Forms, SharePoint News 0 Comment

There are a couple things that frustrate me about SharePoint News. I believe that Microsoft Forms results should be shown in SharePoint news. By fixing this, SharePoint news will be more useful.

I see 2 problems:
❌ SharePoint News is not used a lot in most companies I work with
❌ Not many people in a company know when is the right time to read a Forms survey results…. Or even that you can.

Suggestion:
✅ When you are looking through the results of a Microsoft form, it would be great if there was an easy option to show the results in SharePoint News.

✅✅ Even better would be a way that the Form owner who reviews the comments, could add their own commentary to give context, before the others get to read them.

Help me know who I am signed in as

By Penny Walker in Microsoft Forms 0 Comment

When filling in a form the user icon (aka Account Name) on the top right is missing.

It would be awesome if the Forms questionnaire showed who was signed in. They could copy the Forms responses which is really clear. So it would be awesome if they had the same green bar below:

✅ Figure: Good example – In the green bar I can see who is signed in being “PW”
❌ Figure: Bad example – How the forms currently look – there is no indication who is signed in

Pie vs Bar charts

By Adam Cogan in Microsoft Forms 0 Comment

Dear Microsoft Forms Product Owner,

When looking at the feedback from my forms surveys, I prefer Bar Charts over Pies. Does anyone like Pies? – I find them less readable.

Suggestion: I would like to go to Tools | Options and set my preference

Question: I think I have noticed that Forms show Bars when there are 6 or more options. Right?
If so, I guess I should always make sure I have 6 options 😊 😊

Figure: Pie chart

VS

Figure: Bar chart

That is an odd decision. I was just talking to a person form New Zealand who said:

“we actually have a rule to never use a pie chart :) The only time they’re somewhat useful is if you are comparing 2 things. Anything more and it’s not really readable”

Please fix it or give us an option to allow us to fix it.