Tag: Dynamics 365
2021 Release Wave 1: D365 Field Service Inspections
Previously I wrote a series of articles on the new features in 2021 Release Wave 1. The first article I wrote was about the updates and new features in Dynamics 365 Sales, part 2 was about what’s new in Dynamics 365 Customer Service and part 3 of the series was about Dynamics 365 Field Service. I also wrote a separate article on the new Technician Locator in Dynamics 365 FieldRead More
Dynamics 365 – 2021 Release Wave 1 | Part 3
It’s that time of year again! Starting February 3rd we are able to get early access to some of the new features and updates in Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform! I am writing a series of articles on what is new and what is coming in this release. Previously I wrote an article on generic features and updates for Dynamics 365 Sales which you can read here, and anRead 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
D365 Field Service Inspections Updates – Dec 2020
I was lucky enough to have a conversation with Neha Jain last week, who is a Program Manager at Microsoft focusing on Field Service Inspections. During our call we reviewed the latest improvements and enhancements in Dynamics 365 Field Service Inspections that have been added since the last article I wrote on Inspections, which was published in June of 2020 (If you haven’t read the article you can do soRead More
Push notifications for D365 Field Service Model-Driven App
Now that Microsoft is moving away from the Resco built mobile application (aka Xamarin) and pretty soon (June 2021) all new deployments will use the Microsoft developed Field Service model driven app, we now need to learn how to configure certain things in the Field Service Model Driven App. There are things that you can already do in the Field Service Model Driven app, like use global search as aRead More
D365 Customer Service: Setting up search providers (preview)
I stumbled across another preview feature in Dynamics 365 customer service the other day, which I will discuss in this article. Please note that a preview feature is not ready for production yet because it’s not finished, but Microsoft allows access so that customers can get early access and review the functionality and provide feedback. Ok now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about what this exactly is!Read More
New Intelligent Relevance Search Experience
In November of 2020 Microsoft announced a new intelligent search experience for model-driven apps. This also means that these new search capabilities will be available for all of the Dynamics 365 model driven apps. So you are probably not surprised when I tell you that once you enable this new experience, it will be enabled for all apps in the environment. You will notice that the search icon will haveRead More
Interactive Experience Dashboards
In this article I am going to talk about interactive experience dashboards in Customer Service. These dashboards were introduced to us as part of the interactive service hub in the customer service area. I can’t tell you how much I like them, and honestly I think they are kind of a hidden gem, specially since they have been around for a while! They have similarities with ‘regular’ Dynamics 365 Dashboards,Read More
Set Opportunity probability with Business Rules
As you might have noticed the opportunity entity has an out of the box field related to it that’s called ‘Probability’. This represents the opportunity’s probability of getting closed as a won deal. When you drag the field on the opportunity form there is no automatic calculation or anything for the values of this field. Users will have to manually enter a value in the probability field. In this articleRead More
D365 Field Service Work Order Entitlements – 2
Last week I wrote part one of Dynamics 365 Field Service work order entitlements where I talked about how you can use entitlements in conjunction with Dynamics 365 Field Service. In this article I explained how to set up a very simple entitlement for a customer. I discussed the options available when configuring these simple entitlements. You can read the article here. In this article I’ll be doing a bitRead More
