To ensure consistency in your business process or to know what steps to follow in certain scenarios or events, rely on the playbooks prepared by your managers that guide you with the actions you can take. Playbooks can also contain best practices based on practices that have worked in similar situations before. Playbook template allows…
Dynamics 365 Sales has few AI features bundled as part of the Sales application (without additional license cost) and one of the interesting feature is 'Delaying of an email or scheduling an email to actually send at a later point of time' so that email will be delivered to the recipient on preferred date and…
Enabling Kanban board in views is a new feature in Dynamics 365 CE. Those who practice lean or agile methodologies in any industry would love to use this feature in Dynamics 365. Please note that this can be enabled only in Unified Configuration Interface and not in legacy forms. Steps to follow: Create a new…
Licensing in Dynamics 365 CE is bit complicated as we have maaany options to choose from 🙂 . And often, there is a confusion around what’s in an Enterprise license and what’s in professional license. There is a difference of ~30$ per month between these two and its important to know whats missing in Sales…
Dynamics 365 Connector in Power Automate Flow (Deprecated) Effective May 5, 2020 the Dynamics 365 connector used for Power Automate (MS Flow), Logic Apps and Canvas Apps is officially deprecated. Its recommended that we do not create new connections using this connector. Common Data Service (Current Environment) connector should be the first choice instead of ‘Dynamics 365 Connector’. You…
Dynamics 365 App can be accessed within Microsoft Teams for enabling better collaboration among the business users. Considering the recent changes in the way businesses work, this feature would really help a lot! How should we enable this? 1. First we need to enable the integration between Dynamics 365 and Teams within Dynamics 365 instance…
Update: Gamification admin experience now available in Unified Interface as part of 2020 Release Wave 2 Whenever companies implements a brand new CRM system, one of the key concerns is the User Adoption. And without users capturing the data within the new system in terms of capturing the leads, phone calls made, notes, opportunities in…
Often there is a requirement in Case Management to create a new case when the case associated with the activity is resolved since X days. With the latest release of Dynamics 365 CE, this setting is available as an OOB configuration within Record creation rule. To enable this setting, navigate to Settings>Service Management>Automatic Record Creation…
Set default value Using business rules, we now have the option to set a default value. Setting a default value should be used when you want a field to appear with a set value on load of the record. Being able to set a default value is a standard feature for option sets. However, Business…
Effective Case Resolution plays a key role in better customer service. Nowadays, service companies want to ensure that when a customer creates a case, it gets resolved only when customer gets what he has requested or the problem is actually rectified. An easy way to ensure this, is by sharing a closure code with the…
Found this blog useful in setting up (or to begin with) Devops in your Dynamics 365 environment. https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/crminthefield/posts/introduction-to-devops-for-dynamics-365-customer-engagement-using-yaml-based-azure-pipelines
As you might have heard already, Dynamics 365 Release 2020 Wave 1 (April 2020) is officially available for early preview access. It means that before its available for General release, to explore the new features, we can make use of it in trial / test instances. How to upgrade your instance to Release 2020 Wave…
Many clients I have worked with have complained the awkward auto number format which Dynamics 365 CE offers – particularly the Case number which has the alpha numeric characters at the end which is not at all customer friendly. To overcome this, we often had to write custom auto number plugin which will then introduce…
Dynamics 365 users often ask for the shortcut keys which they can use for navigating around the Dynamics 365 forms. There is already a list available in the user guide from Microsoft. if you are not aware of this, this would be helpful and you can provide this information next time you train your users!…
Omnichannel for Customer Service is a paid add-on to Dynamics 365 Customer Service apps that use the Unified Interface. It is available only when you purchase a subscription of Chat for Dynamics 365. A quick look at the Omni channel hub features - as on Sep 2019: Live chat feature is really stable and easy…
Though Dynamics 365 has OOB feature to enable auto numbering for the system entities (like Case, Opportunity, Lead, Contract etc), most of the times custom auto numbering solution might be required considering the below scenarios: Auto number generated by Dynamics 365 doesn’t meet the business expectation [ eg: having alpha numeric values in the…
If you use On-premise version of Dynamics 365, monitoring performance of the local server is quite easy as the internal IT team has complete access to the application and DB servers. When it comes to Dynamics 365 online, users will not have option to login to the server and monitor the performance. However, Microsoft…
As there are customers migrating from on prem to online version of Dynamics 365, its important to understand the various steps involved in migrating from Dynamics CRM 2016 On Prem to Dynamics 365 Online. 1. Version compatibility Check Any solution exported from a newer version of Microsoft Dynamics 365 cannot be imported into an…
Its much important to get the customer feedback after important interactions with customers and especially when a case is resolved. This post gives you an idea about how a case feedback can be created in dynamics 365 and how can it be automated to send on closure of case. Pre-requisites: Dynamics 365 CE Online…
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