Category: Power Automate
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
Post Adaptive Card to a Teams Channel on Opportunity Win
After playing around with adaptive cards a bit this weekend, I have decided that this is actually one of my favorite things to use when posting messages to Microsoft Teams or Outlook! First let me explain what adaptive cards are and how we can use them in different applications. Adaptive cards are built from JSON and that content can then be rendered inside a host application like Microsoft Teams, Outlook,Read More
Assign SLA based on Case creation time
A few weeks ago I received a question from someone who asked me if it was possible to assign an SLA to a case based on the time of day a case was created. For example if the case was created in the morning between 8AM and 11:59AM it would get the ‘Morning SLA’ attached, and if it was created betweem 12PM and 5PM it would get the ‘Afternoon SLA’Read More
D365 Field Service: Enable lead scheduling and get location using Power Automate
Have you ever had a requirement where you needed Dynamics 365 Field Service to be able to schedule leads? This could be relevant for organizations who need their sales reps to visit prospects at their location to perform certain tasks. (I.E measurements for a project like the installation of hurricane windows or installation of flooring) The processes that I am going to configure in Dynamics 365 for this scenario willRead More
D365 Dialogs functionality using Power Automate: When a record is selected
Most of you probably remember the time when Dialogs was part of Dynamics 365 Processes. When users would run the dialog it allowed for a window to pop up where users could enter data into the dialog. From there the system could perform actions (like workflows and power automate flows do) such as creating a record, updating a record etc.Unfortunately dialogs were deprecated a while ago. What if you neededRead More
Track the last time someone spoke with a lead/contact in Dynamics 365
Today I am going to discuss some functionality which I believe to be very relevant in Dynamics 365. How great would it be if organizations would be able to run a query showing them all the leads or contacts in the system that they have had a conversation with in the past X months? Or maybe a list of leads or contacts that no one has spoken with at all?!Read 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
Using Power Virtual Agent in Dynamics 365 Sales
How great would it be if Dynamics 365 users would have access to a chat bot directly from a form in Dynamics 365? Think about a sales person that is working on an opportunity in Dynamics 365, and he or she has some questions that he/she wants answered while working on the opportunity, without having to navigate all over Dynamics 365? How great would it be if we could loadRead More
Create case from a tweet with negative sentiment
This past weekend I have been playing around a little more with Power Automate. I was off on Friday for Independence Day, since the 4th of July was on a Saturday most organizations gave their employees the previous Friday off to observe the holiday and what better to do on your day off than playing around with some of the tools of the Power Platform toolbox! I was thinking aboutRead More
Tracking Opportunity Approvals
Last week I had an interesting requirement for one of my prospects. They wanted to track approvals for opportunity records in Dynamics 365 Sales. You’re probably going to say ‘That’s easy enough, just use Power Automate and create a flow with approvals but it was a tiny bit more complicated than that, which made me think this configuration would make an interesting topic to write about. I learned a lotRead More
