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CYappert
Copper Contributor
Jan 21, 2020

Can't see some of my Groups on Forms

OK .. so I love forms ... and I use it for a lot of things. But I'm having trouble figuring out the criteria for why a group shows up in my Group Forms listing or not.

 

I thought it was a group ownership issue as opposed to group members... but there are many groups that I own that aren't showing up in my list.

 

Any ideas out there in Forms land??

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  • BDMaster007's avatar
    BDMaster007
    Copper Contributor

    Hi... old topic bit i run into it and found a solution.
    If you go to your account: 
    https://myaccount.microsoft.com/groups/groups-i-belong-to
    the problem for me was that I was an Owner but not a Member of that missing group. So how to become a Member after being an owner already:

    Go to the sharepoint page of that specific group --> in "Home" view, press on the right corner the "xx Members" (xx for amount you have in that group). There I found myself listed as "Owner" --> press "Add Members" and add yourself as "Member"

    You will not see any difference in sharepoint, but if you follow the link above, you now see you are part of the Member and Owner List and also you can see the group in Forms.

  • Damien_Rosario's avatar
    Damien_Rosario
    Bronze Contributor

    Hi CYappert 

     

    From my experiences, once the group has ownership of the Form, it appears in the Group forms tab. From there I can pop down the Recent group forms list and view all my groups. I would then select a group and the form/s within it.

     

     

    Don't use the search bar to the right of the page as it will not show group form results unless you have selected a specific group to search within.

     

    Hope that helps?

     

    Cheers

    Damien

    • CYappert's avatar
      CYappert
      Copper Contributor
      Well, the issue is that it's not possible to give ownership to a group if the group does not show up in any list or view. ... And that is my actual problem .. not all groups/teams are showing up
      • CYappert's avatar
        CYappert
        Copper Contributor

        CYappert 

         

        So an update on this ... MIcrosoft says it's because indexing on grps is not finding the other grps that I'm a member of .. that essentially the grps are non-searchable and so are not showing up. 

         

        Unfortunately, when they ran an index .. it didn't work. So still at square one.

  • Brian_Stauber's avatar
    Brian_Stauber
    Copper Contributor

    This is also something I am trying to figure out. There doesn't seem to be any reason why some Groups appear as either a destination to move an existing form to or to appear in the Groups tab.

     

    I have created new test Groups in different ways (Private vs Public, via the Admin portal and through Teams) and still can't get them to show up. However, a Group i created a month ago via the same methods appears.

     

    Any help from the community would also be appreciated!

     

    Brian

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