Category: Configuration
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
Field Service: Send email with resource pic
If you are using Dynamics 365 Field Service to schedule resources that go onsite to perform work, you probably would have the need to send notification emails to your customer when the resource is on their way. Maybe you want include the picture of the resource so they’ll know what the resource looks like. This could be very helpful for home care type of work, where a nurse get scheduledRead More
Receive a weekly summary email of new D365 Opportunities using Power Automate
Have you or any of your customers ever had the need to schedule the automatic sending of emails? In this article I am going to discuss how we can user Power Automate to send out emails on a scheduled basis with information about Dynamics 365 records. This could be very handy in many scenarios, think about sending employees a list of their timesheets for the past week, or sending thisRead More
Interactive Experience Dashboards
In this article I am going to talk about interactive experience dashboards in Customer Service. These dashboards were introduced to us as part of the interactive service hub in the customer service area. I can’t tell you how much I like them, and honestly I think they are kind of a hidden gem, specially since they have been around for a while! They have similarities with ‘regular’ Dynamics 365 Dashboards,Read More
