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Is it possible to make a form submission anonymous?

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Updated December 15, 2016

asked on December 15, 2016

In Forms (not Forms Portal, just regular forms) - is there any way to make a form anonymous. For example, a "suggestion box" form that allows a user to fill in a text field and submit, which then sends a form to a "suggestion committee". But give the user the option to remain anonymous - at which point, the "suggestion committee" can't see the user who initiated the form, and also the process manager couldn't see who had initiated instances of the form.

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replied on December 15, 2016

You can accomplish this with Forms and Workflow 10, but it would take a little work. You would need 2 processes. The end user submit the suggestion form like normal, but after it is submitted kick off a Workflow that takes the data from the end user submitted form and have Workflow start the second process by passing the data from the submitted form into the second processes form. This would show that workflow kicked off the form when the suggestion committee looked at it.

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replied on December 15, 2016

Thank you @████████ - Correct me if I'm wrong, but this would prevent the committee from seeing who initiated the item, since they are looking at a completely different process - but our process admins could still look at the instance tracking of the "part 1 process" and see who kicked off the request? Ideally, I'd like it to be truly anonymous, where it is impossible to determine who submitted it.

To protect the guilty (I think it's silly to say "protect the innocent", because what do they need protection from?)

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replied on December 15, 2016

You are correct, part 1 process would still have the information of who initiated the instance. In order to be truly anonymous who you would probably need to have the portal.

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replied on December 15, 2016

Okay, thank you @████████- I'll have to think on this...

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