‘Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.’ –Benjamin Franklin.

Power Virtual Agents: Creating basic cards with PowerFX

The last two articles I wrote were both about the new advanced authoring canvas in Power Virtual Agents, which is in preview today. I showed you an example of how we could query data from Dynamics 365 customer service and feed those rows back into Power Virtual Agents so that we can use these values with a question (You can access that article here). The customer can then pick anyRead More

Power Automate: Get list of values for Power Virtual Agents’ List Variable

My last article was about some of the new preview features in Power Virtual that we can try out today. One of these features is the ability to bring in dynamics options from Dataverse and store these in a list variable in Power Virtual Agent to show as options when the bot asks a question. Let me explain what I mean by that. Previously when we asked a question inRead More

Power Virtual Agents: Advanced authoring canvas preview

You might remember that back in May of this year, (during the Microsoft Build event) new capabilities coming to Power Virtual Agents were announced. I was able to get my hands on one of the environments to test it out and write an overview on the new features. If you haven’t read the article you can do that here. I also created an accompanying video which can be accessed fromRead 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

2022 Release Wave 2: Timeline Maker Enhancements

There are a few updates to the maker experience when it comes to configuring the timeline on a form as part of 2022 release wave 2. I think it’s important to not only understand some of the added capabilities here, but also to learn how to configure these timeline options, so I decided to write an article about this. I will not only explain the functionality and how the experienceRead More

Enable AI generated conversation summary(preview)

In this article I am going to discuss a feature that is currently in preview. I had a little trouble finding out how this works, which is why I decided to write this article about it. This feature is part of the collaboration between Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Microsoft Teams which utilizes an AI model that uses natural language to summarize a transcript of an active chat conversation fromRead 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