Tips, tricks and ideas for non developer geeks
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I’ve written about using survey variables in Forms Pro to create a personalised experience for your clients. You can use variables in email templates, in the survey questions and sub-titles, and when embedding within a website. We can also use variables as hidden values, used specifically as a way to link surveys and their responses … Continue reading Connecting Forms Pro Surveys Using Variables
Survey variables can be used in a Forms Pro survey to personalise forms, but also to pass information back and forth from the invitation to the response. When using these variables, they can be seen in a field named ‘Context Data’ in a survey response. If you have a license for Power Apps and can … Continue reading Extracting Survey Variables From Forms Pro Responses (Without Access To CDS)
We recently looked at using the Restrictions option on a Text field in Forms Pro, which gives us the option to set it as an Email address. This provides validation checking to make sure the value entered by the respondent is correct. What if you have other fields like this? We have an option in … Continue reading Custom Regex Validation In Forms Pro
Recently I was asked if I had a list of all of the Forms Pro related expressions I had used in Power Automate flows I’d created. A kind of ‘library’ or ‘cheat sheet’ so to speak. I hadn’t so figured it was as good a time as any to create something. So, here are some … Continue reading Power Automate Expressions To Use With Forms Pro
If you are sending out surveys to anonymous people, perhaps the first time you are collecting any kind of data from someone, an email address is a likely piece of information you’ll want to gather. Up until now, this has just been a text question with no validation at all. People could miss out the … Continue reading Email Address Validation in Forms Pro
So many good blog posts come about from questions asked by others in the community. Add in some collaboration, and the creative and inquisitive minds of others, and you’ve got yourself a nice work around to fix a slight annoyance. Al Eardley tagged me on Twitter with the following question. How can we prevent line … Continue reading Retaining Line Breaks In Multi-Line Text Fields From Forms Pro
It’s 2020 and no doubt you feel like you’ve never been away from work, straight back into it! Hopefully, you had some time off at the end of the year, and maybe even took some of it to think about your plans and goals for the coming 12 months. For me, one of the things … Continue reading Four Ways To Learn Forms Pro
Although my website and the articles I write are primarily about Microsoft, once in a while I feel the need to write about other software or services that I’ve found and have crept in to my weekly routines. I’ve got six I want to share that have helped me become more productive and/or helped me … Continue reading 6 Tools For Productivity & Brand Building
If you are sending out survey invites to your customers, ideally they respond in a timely manner. You have ways in which you can do follow up reminders, but what if the response is time sensitive? If they purchased something, do you really want them to be able to provide feedback on an interaction three … Continue reading Set Amount & Day Limits On Survey Responses
January 26th 2019 brought us the first D365 Saturday Scotland event, held in Glasgow. Much like any other event I go to, I was looking forward to it, but nothing prepared me for just how fantastic it was. It was extremely well attended, with great speakers, and it had a buzz about it which created … Continue reading See You At Scottish Summit?
