Author: Dian Taylor

Dian Taylor is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CRM) Presales Engineer - Director at RSM. She is a seasoned pre-sales consultant specializing in Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CRM) since 2011. In the past Dian has been involved in solution designing, implementing, configuring and customizing several complex scenarios in various industry sectors. D365-CE modules: Sales, Custer Service, Marketing, Field Service, Project Service Automation.
 

Dynamics 365 – 2020 Release Wave 2 | Part 2

In July 2020 the release notes for wave 2 came out for Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform and on August 3rd we were able to enable these features for early access. If you want to see the list of early access features you can access them here. In the next few weeks I am going to write a few articles where I’ll do an overview of the updates andRead More

Dynamics 365 – 2020 Release Wave 2 | Part 1

In July 2020 the release notes for wave 2 came out for Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform and on August 3rd we were able to enable these features for early access. If you want to see the list of early access features you can access them here. In the next few weeks I am going to write a few articles where I’ll do an overview of the updates andRead More

Set Opportunity probability with Business Rules

As you might have noticed the opportunity entity has an out of the box field related to it that’s called ‘Probability’. This represents the opportunity’s probability of getting closed as a won deal. When you drag the field on the opportunity form there is no automatic calculation or anything for the values of this field. Users will have to manually enter a value in the probability field. In this articleRead More

D365 Field Service Work Order Entitlements – 2

Last week I wrote part one of Dynamics 365 Field Service work order entitlements where I talked about how you can use entitlements in conjunction with Dynamics 365 Field Service. In this article I explained how to set up a very simple entitlement for a customer. I discussed the options available when configuring these simple entitlements. You can read the article here. In this article I’ll be doing a bitRead More

D365 Field Service Work Order Entitlements – 1

Entitlements have been a part of Dynamics 365 for quite some time, but we were only able to configure them for cases. This has changed recently!! We can now use entitlements in conjunction with Field Service Work Orders. Work order entitlements allows organizations to automatically apply discounts to work orders and their related products and services by associating a pre-configured price list or just typing in the discount percentage. IRead More

D365 Field Service: Quick book not working

This past week I was was asked to demo a specific way of scheduling a work order using Dynamics 365 Field Service. For anyone who is not familiar with quick booking or quick scheduling in field service, this is a way of assigning a resource to a booking directly from within the context of a work order, without having to pull up the schedule board. I wrote an article aboutRead More

Custom Process Views in Dynamics 365

For the past 4+years I have been working as a presales engineer which means that I am strictly on the sales side of things, and I am not working on any customer implementations anymore. Before I joined my current employer, I was involved in customer implementations of Dynamics 365 or Dynamics CRM as it was called then and last night I came across of some notebooks from my implementation days.Read More

D365 Field Service Inspections – Updates – June 2020

If you weren’t aware, Microsoft released their own version of inspections for field service (for public preview) in April. I wrote an article about it which you can find here. Since inspections came out the team at Microsoft has been busy! More functionality has been added to inspections in the Dynamics 365 Field Service app and I am very excited to discuss some of the new things that were added.Read More

Track Opportunity Sales Stage History

I was building out an environment for a sales demo last week where one of the requirements was that the prospect wanted to only track sales stages for opportunities. They also wanted to be able to track the amount of time an opportunity had been sitting in any particular sales stage. I’ve heard this request before so I had my solution ready, which I will discuss in this article. ThisRead More