Using variables in your Forms Pro surveys is essential when creating a personalised experience for your respondents. There are so many ways to use them to display data in both email templates and surveys, but they can also be used to determine which language to display the survey in on a person by person basis. … Continue reading Using The Locale Variable To Send Multilingual Emails & Surveys

If you have been using Forms Pro for any length of time, you should know that the power of the survey tool lies in the ability to run flows to send survey invitations and to run flows when survey responses are received. Your flows to send out the invites should be set up when specific … Continue reading Triggering Power Automate For A Specific Survey

Creating a Forms Pro survey is pretty simple. Adding in some logic to check for a number, or make sure a field is formatted as an email address is straight forward enough too. We also have the ability to do formatting checks using custom regular expressions which I wrote about here. I’ve been told it’s … Continue reading Ten Custom Expressions To Use With Forms Pro

Once you have sent out your survey invitations (either direct from Forms Pro or using Power Automate to generate and send out the invitation emails), how do we know what’s happened to them? If you have looked in the Common Data Service using a Model-Driven App, or have paid attention to the invitations in Forms … Continue reading What Does The Survey Invite Status Mean?

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

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