Category: D365 Customer Service

 

Power Automate: Copy and paste image field in D365

In this article I am going to discuss how you can copy the data inside an image field from one record to the image field of another record. This could come in handy in different ways but what I am trying to accomplish here is to show related ‘hobby’ data on a contact record in Dynamics 365. In the example I am using for this article, I want to showRead More

Modern Advanced Find in D365

As most of you are probably aware of by now, as part of 2022 Release Wave 1 Microsoft is replacing the legacy advanced find feature with a brand new upgraded version. This is very big news, since we’ve had the legacy advance find for a long time and it’s never really been upgraded! One of the questions that I heard from the community kept coming up as people heard aboutRead More

2022 Release Wave 1 | Part 3: D365 Customer & Field Service

This is my third article on what’s new in 2022 Release Wave 1. In this article I discussing some of the most important features that are mentioned in the release notes for Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Field Service and what they mean for end-users and administrators. I was able to install the early access features on 1/31 in my sandbox so I could test some of these new featuresRead More

Microsoft Teams embedded chat | Part 2

In late October of 2021 I wrote an article about one of my favorite new features in Dynamics 365. Yes, you guessed it, I am talking about the Microsoft Teams integration with Dynamics 365. In particular, I am referring to the embedded chat within Dynamics 365. This functionality allows users to access Microsoft Teams chats directly from within Dynamics 365 and even allows users to link chats to Dynamics 365Read More

Command Bar designer for model-driven apps(preview)

Most of you who have needed to customize buttons in the command bar in Dynamics 365 found out that this is not something that we can do by using any of the configuration tools that come with Dynamics 365. I’ve been pulling my hair out on many occasions until I found the ribbon workbench created by Scott Durow (one of the nicest people I have ever met!) which is partRead More

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

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

2021 Release Wave 2 | Part 2: Customer Service

We have arrived in August and that means that now have the ability to install the early release features of 2021 Release Wave 2 in a sandbox environment for testing! For the folks who are not familiar with Microsoft’s release cadence, Microsoft Power Platform and Customer Engagement apps (Dynamics 365 Sales, Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Dynamics 365 Field Service, Dynamics 365 Marketing, Dynamics 365 Project Operations, etc.) deliver two major releases perRead More