Tag: Field Service
Customizing the booking calendar in the Field Service mobile app
I wrote several articles about the new features for Dynamics 365 that were part of 2021 release wave 2, but in some instances wasn’t able to go into details because some of the functionality wasn’t available yet at the time I wrote those articles. In today I am going to discuss a specific feature for Dynamics 365 Field Service. Previously we weren’t able to add any custom fields to theRead More
2021 Release Wave 2 | Part 3: Field Service
It’s August and that means that now have the ability to install the early release features of 2021 Release Wave 2 in a sandbox environment for testing! For the folks who are not familiar with Microsoft’s release cadence, Microsoft Power Platform and Customer Engagement apps (Dynamics 365 Sales, Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Dynamics 365 Field Service, Dynamics 365 Marketing, Dynamics 365 Project Operations, etc.) deliver two major releases per year which provideRead More
D365 Field Service: Customer Self Scheduling
In this article I will be discussing the self scheduling feature for Dynamics 365 Field Service. This feature will allow customers to schedule service from the Field Service Power Apps portal. As you probably already guessed, yes this is another feature that is part of 2021 Release Wave 1. This feature was not available for early access, but it is currently in public preview so you can take a lookRead More
D365 Field Service Simplified Setups
It’s April and this means that 2021 Release Wave 1 production deployments have started! Not all of the features mentioned in the documentation have been enabled yet because the features for this release wave will be released from April 2021 through September 2021. The features that will go GA in April might not have been installed in your production environment yet because his actually happens on a schedule and dependsRead More
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
D365 Field Service: Technician Locator
This is another feature of 2021 release wave 1 which is currently in preview. There is a little bit of setup for this one so instead of adding this to my previous article 2021 Release Wave 1 | Part 3, I wanted to write a separate article to go over the setup and talk about how it works in the application. The technician locator allows Field Service organizations to sendRead 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 Field Service Mobile: Reporting for the Model Driven App
Most of you are probably aware that Microsoft is moving away from the Resco built mobile app (Xamaran) for Dynamics 365 Field Service and that the direction is to use the new model driven app for Dynamics 365 Field Service. Starting June of 2021 all new Dynamics 365 Field Service deployments will only have the model driven mobile app, and in June 2022 everyone should be migrated off the XamaranRead 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
