In this Microsoft Power Automate tutorial, I’ll show you how to get your Microsoft Form responses into SharePoint. I’ll cover how to build a Microsoft form with conditional fields by using branching. You’ll learn how to format your multiple choice responses for a SharePoint multi-choice column as well as converting it to text. I’ll also show you how to take a text response and convert it to a number with a switch action and with an expression.
After adding the response to SharePoint, we’ll send the user an email confirmation with all the details of their form submission.
At the end of the video I’ll show you a few tips and tricks on working with a SharePoint list.
IN THIS VIDEO:
✓ How to get a Microsoft Form Response into SharePoint
✓ How to get a Microsoft Form ID
✓ How to get a Microsoft Form response
✓ How to Build a Microsoft Form with Conditional Fields
✓ How to used Branching in Microsoft Forms
✓ How to format Microsoft Form multiple choice responses for a SharePoint multi-choice column
✓ How to parse a Microsoft Form multiple choice response as string of text
✓ How to convert a text response to a number
✓ How to use the Switch action
✓ How to create a custom email confirmation for a Microsoft Form submission
✓ How to Create a Custom View in a SharePoint list
✓ How to use the Compose Action
✓ How to write Power Automate Expressions
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Are you using the Switch action in your flow? While it seems like a simple way to handle multiple conditions, it can quickly become inefficient and difficult to manage.
Here’s why:
❌ You can’t use dynamic content in the Equals field.
❌ You have to manually recreate the same actions for each case.
❌ Any updates require you to edit every single case individually.
This results in a flow that’s repetitive, hard to scale, and a nightmare to maintain.
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to replace redundant Switch actions with a **Dynamic Reference Key**—a simple but powerful way to streamline your flows. Instead of repeating the same actions over and over, you’ll create a **lookup-style structure** that makes your flows more efficient, scalable, and easier to update.
IN THIS VIDEO:
✓ Why the Switch action is inefficient and what to use instead
✓ What is a Dynamic Reference Key
✓ Creating a custom look up in Power Automate
✓ Using a Dynamic Reference Key instead of writing an expression with nested if() functions
✓ How to use a Dynamic Reference Key to reduce actions in your flow
✓ How to use a Dynamic Reference Key to route emails to different recipients based on a MS Form Selection
✓ How to reduce redundancies in your flow by using a single Send an Email (V2) action instead of multiple instances
✓ How to use a Dynamic Reference Key to send email notifications 90, 60 and 30 days from today’s date
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