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MS Forms: Choose which collaborator(s) get responses depending on which answer(s) responder selects

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I work at a university that previously used Qualtrics as a survey collection method. We are now trying to shift all our collection methods to Microsoft Forms. With Qualtrics, a survey responder could select an email address in a multiple choice question. Using functions, selecting this email address would automatically send a copy of the responder's responses to the selected email address.

Would it be possible to do this via Microsoft Forms and Power Automate too? Specifically allowing certain responders' answers to go to certain collaborators' email addresses depending on which email addresses were selected in a multiple choice question? How would building this process look like? Any help is appreciated.
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    Riyaz_riz11 Profile Picture
    3,893 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    Hi,

    Step 1: Create the Form

    • Go to Microsoft Forms.

    • Create your survey.

    • Add a multiple choice question titled something like:

      “Who should receive a copy of your response?”

      • Add options with email addresses or names (e.g., professorA@university.edu, admin@university.edu)

      • Enable “Multiple answers” if needed.

     Step 2: Create the Cloud Flow in Power Automate

    1. Trigger:

      • Trigger: “When a new response is submitted”

        → Choose your Form.

    2. Action: Get Response Details

      • Use “Get response details” action

      • Select the same Form and map the Response ID from the trigger 

    3. Action: Parse selected emails

      • If it’s a multiple choice question, you’ll receive an array of strings (email addresses or labels).

      • Use a Compose or Apply to each step to loop through the selected values.

    4. (Optional): Map names to emails

      If the options are names (like "Professor A") instead of direct emails, use a Switch case or dictionary via Initialize Variable (Object) to map names → emails.

    5. Send Email Action (Outlook)

      • Inside the loop, or using joined string if multiple recipients:

        • Use “Send an email (V2)

        • To = the selected email(s)

        • Subject = “Form Response from [Name/Email/etc.]”

        • Body = Use dynamic content (insert each form answer into the body, or use JSON-style output)

    You can use this in your "Send email" action:

    Hello,

    A new survey response has been submitted. Here are the details:

    - Name: @{outputs('Get_response_details')?['body/your_name_question']}
    - Department: @{outputs('Get_response_details')?['body/department_question']}
    - Comments: @{outputs('Get_response_details')?['body/comments_question']}

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    Regards,
    Riyaz

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