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Enable External Data in forms

Enable External Data in forms to connect Questions/Dropdowns or Selects from Existing Data .

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would give Forms a massive jump into support Business Processes to control data inputs that are then 'dynamically' managed within the form

  • Lee commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I echo that. Data driven forms that potentially we can send to individual clients with custom personalisation from CDS / External data source. Eg Clients name, project name and rating from client. Then also allow the Post back to CDS directly would be awesome, we could use powerautomate though

  • Jordan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I echo other views here, this is the only feature which is preventing me using Forms as what would be very powerful part of automation projects.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please Please Please... In Forms Pro, support the ability to have Dynamics 365 or CDS as a data source (pulldown, combox box)....

  • Matt commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Not being able to read external data to produce list choices is killing every use case I think of for Forms.

  • Ben Steiner commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Definitely need data driven forms. The ability to use an external data source for drop down/selection options and as control for branching.

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