Understanding the Forms connector triggers and actions

Before we can begin crafting a flow that involves Microsoft Forms, it’s important to understand what kinds of triggers and actions are available for the Forms connector. As a reminder, triggers are activities that can initiate a flow, and actions are the activities that a flow can perform. If you need to brush up on your terminology, you can refer back to Chapter 1, Introducing Microsoft Power Automate.

Triggers

As mentioned in the introduction, Microsoft Forms is a survey and information gathering tool. An end user’s interaction with Forms finishes when they complete and submit the form. As such, the Forms connector currently has only one trigger: When a new response is submitted. This trigger is activated when a user submits a form to the service.

Actions

The Forms connector also has only a single action: Get response details. Using this action, Power Automate can retrieve the data submitted by...