Category: D365 Sales

 

Schedule weekly email with quote details and hyperlink | Part 2

Last week I wrote part 1 of my article on how you can use Power Automate to automatically send a weekly email with data from Dynamics 365 Sales, or Dataverse. If you haven’t read the article yet, I would suggest doing that first. You can access the article here. In today’s article I am going to finish building the Power Automate flow. Last week we left off at the ‘ListRead More

Schedule weekly email with quote details and hyperlink | Part 1

In todays article I am going to explain a specific requirement and show you how we can use power automate to satisfy this particular requirement. A few months ago I had to demonstrate a scenario where sales people needed to get a reminder for outstanding quotes they needed to follow up on. The sales people would create quotes on a daily bases, but not all quotes would be completed ‘allRead More

Dynamics 365 Sales: Product Forecasting – Part 2

Last week I wrote part 1 of my series on the product forecasting capabilities in Dynamics 365 Sales, and if you haven’t read that article yet, you can do that here. Since the article became a bit long I decided to split it up into two different parts. In part 1 I started talking about the configuration of a forecast, so I am picking up where I left off inRead More

Dynamics 365 Sales: Product Forecasting – Part 1

If your organization has implemented Dynamics 365 Sales, then you are probably familiar with the forecasting feature that is included in the product. Usually forecasts show data from an org chart or sales rep perspective, meaning you’ll see all the different dollar amounts by forecast bucket by the sales rep that owns the related opportunities in a forecast record. This is called an org chart forecast and is probably whatRead More

Email Validation(preview) in Dynamics 365 Sales

Today I am writing an article about yet another preview feature that you can try out in your sandbox environment today. This feature went into public preview this month (October 2022) and if you don’t see the option in your environment yet, you just need to wait a little longer until it reaches your region. Before showing you what this does, let’s first talk about what exactly it is! SoRead More

Create custom notifications on email opens

You have probably all seen the notifications in Dynamics 365 when a customer or prospect opens an email message. This notification shows in the timeline on the bottom of an email message, but if you don’t check it, you won’t see it! Another place where these notifications can become visible is in the Dynamics 365 assistant…if you set up a notification for this when you created the email in DynamicsRead More

Viva Sales(preview) | Part 2

Last week I posted part one of my articles (you can read it here) about Viva Sales which is in preview today. Microsoft describes Viva Sales as a seller experience application designed to get sellers out of the busy work and in front of customers. Viva Sales will connect to any CRM system and will add detailed insights to customer exchanges and activities that take place through Microsoft (aka Office)Read More

Viva Sales(Preview) | Part 1

I am sure you’ve heard about Viva Sales, which is yet another application developed by Microsoft for sales people! Microsoft describes this application as a seller experience application designed to get sellers out of the busy work and in front of customers. This is actually very exciting because this tool will not just bring together the power of a more connected platform, but this tool will also help sellers becomeRead More

Customize Work List Cards in 2022 Wave 2!

The feature that I am going to discuss in this article is part of the early release features of the upcoming release wave! When I wrote my article on the release notes for 2022 Release Wave 2, I didn’t have access to any of the early release features, which is why I am writing this article now that I do have access. I installed the early release features for DynamicsRead More

Dynamics 365: 2022 Release notes for wave 2 are here!

Earlier today Microsoft published the release notes for the 2022 Release wave 2! I always tell people to keep in mind that this is a living document, meaning that these updates are not set in stone. Microsoft is continuously updating the release notes by changing, adding and even removing functionality from the plan. This is also one of the reasons I will not post any preview or GA dates here.Read More