Category: Configuration
Ad-hoc Power Bi reporting in Dynamics 365 (preview)
In this article I am going to discuss yet another preview feature! I have to say I am super excited about this one because this feature allows users to pull up an ad-hoc Power BI report, without having to actually build a power bi report! HUH? I know that sounds strange right? How can you visualize data in Power Bi without building a report? We are all familiar with showingRead More
Collaboration in model-driven apps
It’s time for another article on a preview feature! I am very excited about this one because this feature brings functionality that we are already familiar with from other Microsoft applications to model-driven PowerApps! This means we can take advantage of this in Dynamics 365 as well! Awesome! Great! So what is it!!!? I’m sure you might have worked in a document in Microsoft 365, maybe an excel sheet orRead More
Customizing the booking calendar in the Field Service mobile app
I wrote several articles about the new features for Dynamics 365 that were part of 2021 release wave 2, but in some instances wasn’t able to go into details because some of the functionality wasn’t available yet at the time I wrote those articles. In today I am going to discuss a specific feature for Dynamics 365 Field Service. Previously we weren’t able to add any custom fields to theRead More
Simplified Dataverse search configuration
I am not sure if you heard yet that Relevance Search has been renamed to Dataverse Search? I actually realized it the other day when I tried to turn off Relevance Search for one of my Dynamics 365 environments, when I couldn’t locate the option to turn off Relevance Search. This option had been replaced by the option to turn off Dataverse Search instead and this is when it hitRead More
Microsoft Teams embedded chat
Finally it’s here: Microsoft Teams embedded chat in Dynamics 365. I have waited a long time for this functionality to become available as I am sure many of you have as well! Today this feature is in preview as part of 2021 release wave 2. This might not be available in your environment when this article comes out, but that just means you will have to wait just a littleRead More
Preview: In-App notifications for Model Driven Apps
For this week’s article I am going to discuss a feature that has been in public preview since July 22nd of this year. You are probably wondering what these in-apps notifications for Model Driven Apps are, since we already have the ability to create push notifications using Power Automate. Well, the difference here is that push notifications are only sent to mobile devices, and therefor they won’t be visible forRead More
Configuration: Form Component Control
I am sure you most of you are familiar with the quick view form in Dynamics 365, which is a great way to show data from a related table on a form. We can use this form where the related table has a 1:N relationship with the table where we are embedding the form in. What this really means is that we can use quick view forms to show dataRead More
Configuration: Advanced Lookups
Last week I came across a new way to configure lookup fields in Dynamics 365 called ‘Advanced Lookup’. This is actually something that needs to be enabled first, but once it is enabled this functionality will be available for most lookup fields in Dynamics 365. Advanced lookups allows users to get more information on the records they can choose from to populate in the lookup field. For example if aRead More
Pass customer data from pre-chat survey to Power Virtual Agent
PLEASE NOTE IF YOU HAVE UPGRADED TO COPILOT STUDIO, THE SOLUTION IN THIS ARTICLE IS IS NO LONGER WORKING! PLEASE READ MY NEW ARTICLE ON HOW THIS WORKS IN COPILOT STUDIO! If you are familiar with Power Virtual Agent and Omnichannel, you are probably aware that when these applications are integrated, we can create one or more pre-chat survey questions that will show in the chat when a customer engagesRead More
