Author: Dian Taylor
D365 Dialogs functionality using Power Automate: When a record is selected
Most of you probably remember the time when Dialogs was part of Dynamics 365 Processes. When users would run the dialog it allowed for a window to pop up where users could enter data into the dialog. From there the system could perform actions (like workflows and power automate flows do) such as creating a record, updating a record etc.Unfortunately dialogs were deprecated a while ago. What if you neededRead More
Track the last time someone spoke with a lead/contact in Dynamics 365
Today I am going to discuss some functionality which I believe to be very relevant in Dynamics 365. How great would it be if organizations would be able to run a query showing them all the leads or contacts in the system that they have had a conversation with in the past X months? Or maybe a list of leads or contacts that no one has spoken with at all?!Read More
D365 Field Service Inspections Updates – Dec 2020
I was lucky enough to have a conversation with Neha Jain last week, who is a Program Manager at Microsoft focusing on Field Service Inspections. During our call we reviewed the latest improvements and enhancements in Dynamics 365 Field Service Inspections that have been added since the last article I wrote on Inspections, which was published in June of 2020 (If you haven’t read the article you can do soRead More
Create Custom D365 Assistant Cards
I have received several requests to write an article about how we can utilize Power Automate to automatically create custom cards that will be shown in the Dynamics 365 Assistant. If you are not familiar with the Dynamics 365 Assistant let me tell you about it, as I feel it’s a great tool. The assistant used to be called the relationship assistant and is part of Dynamics 365 Sales Insights.Read More
Push notifications for D365 Field Service Model-Driven App
Now that Microsoft is moving away from the Resco built mobile application (aka Xamarin) and pretty soon (June 2021) all new deployments will use the Microsoft developed Field Service model driven app, we now need to learn how to configure certain things in the Field Service Model Driven App. There are things that you can already do in the Field Service Model Driven app, like use global search as aRead More
D365 Customer Service: Setting up search providers (preview)
I stumbled across another preview feature in Dynamics 365 customer service the other day, which I will discuss in this article. Please note that a preview feature is not ready for production yet because it’s not finished, but Microsoft allows access so that customers can get early access and review the functionality and provide feedback. Ok now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about what this exactly is!Read More
New Intelligent Relevance Search Experience
In November of 2020 Microsoft announced a new intelligent search experience for model-driven apps. This also means that these new search capabilities will be available for all of the Dynamics 365 model driven apps. So you are probably not surprised when I tell you that once you enable this new experience, it will be enabled for all apps in the environment. You will notice that the search icon will haveRead More
Customer Service Workspace Review
I was working in the new Customer Service Workspace app, which got added to my instance as part of the 2020 Release Wave 2 (keep in mind this app is still in preview). I wrote a small piece on this app as part of my article Dynamics 365 – 2020 Release Wave 2 | Part 3 which you can read here or if you prefer watching a video you canRead More
App Profile Manager
The App Profile Manager is something that is completely new, this feature was added in September. It gives system administrators another tool to add configurations to an app. The app profile has nothing to do with the data users are accessing through the app (as you know this is handled by security roles), but it is focused on giving people access (or preventing access) to certain items and functionality inRead More
Escalating Cases in D365 Customer Service
If you or your organization is using Dynamics 365 Customer Service then you probably have the need to escalate cases. This functionality is something that can be easily build in the application. In this article I am doing to discuss how that can be done. I previously wrote an article about how to setup automatic case assignment which you can find here, and I am going to build the escalationRead More
