Microsoft Power Automate Tutorial
Email Notification on Form Completion with Flow (using a template)
- This Power Automate tutorial demonstrates how to send email notifications upon the completion of a form in Microsoft Forms. This technique can also be used to send an email from most of the Office 365 applications when a specific event occurs. Creating a flow from scratch can also be done, but using a template is usually easier.
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Click “Create” on the left side of the page.
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Go to “Start from a template”.
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In the search box, enter “Forms” and click the spyglass (
) or press enter. From the returned results, look for the following template and click it.
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At the bottom of the page, click "continue."
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Choose the form that needs the email notification from the dropdown list.
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Enter the email address where the notification will be sent. You can enter multiple addresses by separating them with a semicolon (;).
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When the cursor is put in the text box for the email body, you can enter a static message or choose fields from the form fields list that will pop up.
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Dynamic field example - press the enter button to separate responses to different lines in the body of the email. Otherwise, the responses will be strung together.
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Click "Show advanced options" for additional information that can be included.
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Click "Save."
- After saving you can run a test or click the arrow (
) to go to the flow details page. On the details page, you can view the run history, check the connections, and turn the flow off and on. You can also add/delete owners of the flow.
- Make sure that the flow is switched to "On" in the top right-hand corner of this page.
When the flow is on the switch will show.
- Make sure that the flow is switched to "On" in the top right-hand corner of this page.