Tag: Dynamics 365

 

D365 Field Service: Trades

Another feature for Dynamics 365 Field Service that is part of 2023 release wave 1 is the ability to use trades to group services together. There are a lot of benefits to using trades in D365 Field Service, but before I get into that, let me first explain what trades represents in Dynamics 365 Field Service. As you probably already suspected, trades are the types of services that your organizationRead More

D365 Field Service: Not-to-exceed values

This month there are a bunch of features that are part of 2023 Release Wave 1 that will roll out. One of them is the not-to-exceed functionality in Dynamics 365 Field Service. This is functionality we have been waiting for and I am excited that it’s finally rolling out! I’ve had some prospects in the past who were interested in this type of functionality and I ended up building thisRead More

Viva Sales: Administrator Settings

I wrote two articles about Viva Sales back in August of last year, when it first became available in preview. If you haven’t read those articles, you can read part 1 here and part 2 here. Viva Sales has been generally available since October of 2022. Since the release, there have been some enhancements to Viva Sales. Last week I wrote an article about the new suggested email replies capabilities,Read More

2023 Release Wave 1: D365 Sales Release Notes | Part 2

Last week I published part 1 of my series on 2023 Release Wave 1. There are so many features and updates for Dynamics 365 Sales alone, which is why I decided to split the article for D365 Sales into two parts. If you haven’t read the previous article, you can do that here. Last week I dove into the documentation and decided to do read through of all the featuresRead More

2023 Release Wave 1: D365 Sales Release Notes | Part 1

It’s that time of year again! On January 25, 2023 the release notes for 2023 Release Wave 1 were published! I dove into the documentation and decided to do read through of all the features to (hopefully) give you a better understanding of what’s coming in this wave. Please note that these notes are a constant work in progress, meaning that some of these features might be removed at someRead More

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

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

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