A former colleague recently reached out to me wanting to know how to have a flow kick off once someone had completed training hosted in a PowerPoint deck. He was asking if he could include a button that someone could press. Initially, I was thinking that it needs to be an authenticated session and while you could add a PowerPoint button/link onto a slide deck, it won’t pick up their credentials/user context. I was thinking “if only I could embed a flow button inside of this deck”.

After a web search, I learned of a new Forms add-in that can be used to host our form. Since we can enforce a user to sign-in to submit a form, this would work. Naturally, we can have a flow that is listening for form submissions which allows us to send this data to SharePoint for long-term storage and the ability to place a Power BI dashboard on-top (if we wish). In addition, we can send a confirmation email to the user who submitted the form. Yes, Microsoft forms will allow you to do some of these features in-product, but having a flow respond to requests provides for additional agility/use cases.

We can find the Microsoft Forms integration inside of PowerPoint by navigating to the Insert – > Forms. At this point we have the ability to embed an existing form or create a new one.

While the solution is simple, it is a powerful solution for people looking to build a DYI – LMS (Learning Management System). We will embed a form inside of Power Point and then when the form is submitted, the data will get send to Power Automate where it will orchestrate updating SharePoint and sending an email.

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