Creating Business Applications with Office 365: Techniques in SharePoint, PowerApps, Power BI, and More

© Jeffrey M. Rhodes 2019

J. M. RhodesCreating Business Applications with Office 365https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5331-1_11

11. Creating a Survey Solution with Microsoft Forms, Flow, SharePoint, and Power BI

Jeffrey M. Rhodes¹ 

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Colorado, CO, USA

 

An exciting new feature¹ of Office 365 is Microsoft Forms. While not yet as powerful as InfoPath, Forms makes it very easy to create forms and surveys. In this example, we will create a survey for our help desk in Forms (similar to what we did with a built-in SharePoint survey in the last chapter). Since we can’t currently use Forms as a data source for Power BI, we will use Flow to copy each survey response to a SharePoint² list. We then use this SharePoint list as our Power BI data source.

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