Category: Configuration
Using Power Virtual Agent in Dynamics 365 Sales
How great would it be if Dynamics 365 users would have access to a chat bot directly from a form in Dynamics 365? Think about a sales person that is working on an opportunity in Dynamics 365, and he or she has some questions that he/she wants answered while working on the opportunity, without having to navigate all over Dynamics 365? How great would it be if we could loadRead More
Setup Mailbox for Automatic Case Creation in Unified Interface
In the past I’ve written an article on how to setup and configure a support mailbox in exchange where customers can send emails to if they have an issue that needs to be resolved. We were able to use the automatic record creation and update rules (ACR) in the legacy interface to configure the logic to create a case record for the email that came in. I’ve tried to setRead 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 – 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
Create case from a tweet with negative sentiment
This past weekend I have been playing around a little more with Power Automate. I was off on Friday for Independence Day, since the 4th of July was on a Saturday most organizations gave their employees the previous Friday off to observe the holiday and what better to do on your day off than playing around with some of the tools of the Power Platform toolbox! I was thinking 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
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
Tracking Opportunity Approvals
Last week I had an interesting requirement for one of my prospects. They wanted to track approvals for opportunity records in Dynamics 365 Sales. You’re probably going to say ‘That’s easy enough, just use Power Automate and create a flow with approvals but it was a tiny bit more complicated than that, which made me think this configuration would make an interesting topic to write about. I learned a lotRead More
D365 Field Service: Inspections(Preview)
Microsoft has added another preview feature to Dynamics 365 Field Service which is now widely available for public preview. Inspection functionality has been available as an add-on from a third party (I.E Resco Inspections), but not as a core Dynamics 365 Field Service feature. Well, get ready because that is going to change. I am very excited about inspections because I work with a lot of prospects that have aRead More