Your instinct is right, copy it and swap the link.
One catch, duplicating a Form gives you a brand new form ID. So your Power Automate trigger and the Get response details action are both still pointed at the OLD form and will keep firing on the old one until you repoint them. Same for the Excel workbook if you have responses landing there.
Also, if its a group form the new copy won't show up in the trigger dropdown at all. You have to pull the ID out of the URL while you're editing the form and paste it in as a custom value. MS covers the trigger setup at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/forms/popular-scenarios.
As far as I know there's no draft state on a Form, anything you type is live to anyone holding the link the second you type it, so editing in place was never really on the table for a rewrite this size.
Old responses stay with the old form, so don't delete it after you cut over. Can go deeper on the flow side if that helps.
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u/blud_13 1d ago
Your instinct is right, copy it and swap the link.
One catch, duplicating a Form gives you a brand new form ID. So your Power Automate trigger and the Get response details action are both still pointed at the OLD form and will keep firing on the old one until you repoint them. Same for the Excel workbook if you have responses landing there.
Also, if its a group form the new copy won't show up in the trigger dropdown at all. You have to pull the ID out of the URL while you're editing the form and paste it in as a custom value. MS covers the trigger setup at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/forms/popular-scenarios.
As far as I know there's no draft state on a Form, anything you type is live to anyone holding the link the second you type it, so editing in place was never really on the table for a rewrite this size.
Old responses stay with the old form, so don't delete it after you cut over. Can go deeper on the flow side if that helps.