Category: Configuration
Timeline Updates
For the people that are not familiar with the timeline in Dynamics 365, the timeline is a control that you’ve probably seen on many of the forms in Dynamics 365. It shows all activities related to a row and gives users insights to what interactions are scheduled and/or have occurred in the past. Depending on the row you are viewing, you’ll see different activities in the timeline. For example, ifRead More
Use plugin actions in Copilot Studio (preview)
If you read last week’s article than you know that Microsoft announced a couple of new features during the Microsoft Power Platform Conference that took place in Las Vegas the first week of October. Last week I wrote about the ability to upload documents for generative answers which is in preview today, which allows us to upload one or multiple documents to be used in generative answers in Power VirtualRead More
Upload documents as a source for generative answers (preview) in Copilot Studio
If you attended Microsoft’s Power Platform Conference this month, then you probably heard about some of the new (preview) features that were announced for Power Virtual Agents! If you are not aware, of some of the features I’m referring to, or don’t exactly know what those features entail, then you definitely need to read this article! There are two features that are currently in preview, and I will discuss theRead More
Smart Email Validation for Dataverse(preview)
You might remember that I wrote an article about the email validation feature which went into public preview back in October of 2022. (Yes it is still in preview today!). This feature allowed us to validate email addresses for leads (and now also contacts) in Dynamics 365 Sales. As you might or might not know, leads and contacts have several email address columns; ‘emailaddress1‘, ‘emailaddress2‘, and ‘emailaddress3, but unfortunately theRead More
Smart Org Chart (preview)
Most people who have worked with Dynamics 365 Sales before probably know about the org chart capabilities in the application. If you’re not familiar, the name already explains it. We can show the organizational structure of an organization as an org chart, by moving the related account contacts around which visualizes the hierarchy of all the people related to an account in Dynamics 365. The smart org chart feature completelyRead More
Enhanced Case Experience in D365 Customer Service
In the last 3 articles I wrote, I discussed a whole bunch of new PCF controls that became available for Dynamics 365 Customer Service. In this article I am going to discuss the new Enhanced Case Experience in Dynamics 365 Customer Service. This enhanced experience introduces two brand new case forms for the Customer Service Workspace app, and you’ll notice that all the controls I discussed in my previous articlesRead More
D365 CS: Spice up your case forms with new controls! | Part 2
In my last article and the article before that, I discussed a few of the new PCF controls that became available for Dynamics 365 Customer Service. In this article I am going to wrap up this topic and discuss the remaining PCF controls that you can add to your custom or out of the box case forms in the Customer Workspace app. You might have thought that I covered aRead More
D365 CS: Spice up your case forms with new controls!
If you read last weeks article, where I talked about the new 360 customer component which came out as part of 2023 release wave 1. I also talked about how you can use and configure this component in conjunction with cases in Dynamics 365 customer service. The Microsoft documentation has this component listed under Dynamics 365 Customer Service, so it might be the case that we can’t use the componentRead More
D365 Customer Service: Customer 360 Component
In today’s article I am going to discuss yet another feature that was part of 2023 release wave 1 which is called the Customer 360 component. This component allows system administrators or makers to display details of a customer field on a case record. We already had the ability to do that by using a quick view form, but by using this control makers can configure which fields to showRead More
D365 Field Service: Not-to-exceed values
This month there are a bunch of features that are part of 2023 Release Wave 1 that will roll out. One of them is the not-to-exceed functionality in Dynamics 365 Field Service. This is functionality we have been waiting for and I am excited that it’s finally rolling out! I’ve had some prospects in the past who were interested in this type of functionality and I ended up building thisRead More
