Triggering Workflow on Form Submission

💬 Workflows
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Hello, I am trying to create a form that will allow clients to submit project requests to my company. The request needs to be reviewed by a manager before we add the request to our project list.
The form is the first step in this process, human verification occurs through passing the form data to MS Teams via an API call to Power Automate.
I can not get a workflow to trigger upon form submission and am getting confused reading through the documentation I can find; it seems like workflow needs to receive a webhook to run but the only way to associate the forms’ “Submit” button is through selecting the workflow to run. My workflow is properly assigned but not running because my “Submit” button is not sending an API call to the workflow.

I have attached a screenshot below with my PA URI removed.

  1. My goal: To send form responses to Power Automate upon receiving a form submission

  2. Issue: I can not associate a workflow with my form. Scheduling a workflow does not work for my use case.

  3. Steps I've taken to troubleshoot: I have read through the ReTool documentation; created and tested various arrangements of webhook triggers and REST API triggers.

  4. Additional info: (Cloud hosted app,

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Hi @HamezMM,

I am guessing you are using the stand alone Retool Form, and not a form component inside an app. Just want to confirm that.

I was testing this out and what I found was, with a Retool Form I had already created, based on a DB schema, when I tried to connect it to trigger a workflow on submission it was giving me an error message.

But when I created a new Retool Form from scratch, and did not sync it to a DB schema, I was able to have the form trigger a workflow on form submission.

Let me know how you built your Form and if recreating the Form and then connecting it to the workflow is working or if you are getting an error message on submit.

Also make sure you have the webhook as a trigger option toggled on.

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Let me know if you are able to get this working by following the steps in the video. Alternatively we could look into having a Retool app with a form component trigger a REST API call to the webhook endpoint to trigger the workflow and pass along a payload of data.

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Hi @HamezMM,

Just wanted to check and see if you had gotten a chance to test out the set up I shared above!