I recently had a customer who was using the parent/child Account functionality to describe the hierarchy of complex organisational hierarchies. You know the thing – ACME Global is the parent of ACME Europe, CME Asia and ACME America etc:They weren’t using the organisation chart functionality, which
Read the full article hereAs everyone in the Dynamics-verse (see what I did there? -#Dataverse), is well aware, we have had an alternative way to configure customisations in Dynamics 365 for some time now, namely the Power Apps Maker Portal. The traditional way was of course the classic Customisations module in Dynamics 365.
Read the full article hereBack in 2016, I wrote a blog 10 things you may not know about immersive Excel.In the intervening years (wow, has it been that long?!) I’ve discovered a few more things about immersive Excel that may interest you. I’ve not managed another set of 10. Just 8 this time.Before we start, to refresh your m
Read the full article hereThe new(ish) Unified Interface for Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement comes with a whole stack of nice features. One of these is the calendar control. This has of course been around in the tablet and phone clients for a while now, but now we have the Unified Interface, I decided to take a closer look
Read the full article hereSometimes a new feature is released in Dynamics 365 with little or no fanfare. It could be something very small and it just slips under the radar. Sometimes when I stumble across these new features I start to doubt myself, and wonder if it's been there all along. I often have to check back on older
Read the full article hereThemes were introduced in CRM 2015. They’ve gone largely unchanged since then, but with V9, the components that can be themed have changed a little. Here I highlight what each component colour changes on the screen. Some of you will probably already know if you’ve used themes before, but a few may b
Read the full article hereEditable grids are a very convenient way to update data in Dynamics 365. Lookups, and specifically filtered lookups, warrant special attention in editable grids as some of the out of the box behaviour may surprise you. Quick Recap on Filtered Lookups Filtered lookups allow you to display a subset of
Read the full article hereAs part of the suite of features in the new Relationship Insights module in Microsoft Dynamics 365, Auto capture displays work related emails in Dynamics 365 by enabling access to your email in Microsoft Exchange. In this demo, we give a short overview of Auto capture.
Read the full article hereThe single most requested feature in Microsoft Dynamics 365 on Microsoft Connect, and now on the Microsoft Ideas site, is to have ‘Not In’ queries for views and advanced find. For example: Accounts with no ContactsContacts with no CasesAccounts with no Opportunities Previously, it has been possible
Read the full article hereIntroduction In order to be successfully adopted, CRM systems have to be simple to use. One way to achieve this is to map business processes into CRM. Over the past few years, one way of doing that was business process flows (BPFs). BPFs are very useful for representing processes that could take day
Read the full article hereAppointment in Outlook will be allocated a reminder time based on the user’s Outlook personal options:This means that they then pop up in the user’s Outlook as a reminder, the specified time before the appointment starts:This is really useful. The user doesn’t miss the appointment, and is able to us
Read the full article hereAs part of the suite of features in the new Relationship Insights module in Dynamics 365, Email Engagement allows users to get further insight into how their customers are engaging with outbound emails from Dynamics 365.In this demo, we give a short overview of Email Engagement and how you can use i
Read the full article hereRelationship Insights is an exciting new feature in Dynamics 365. It’s backed by Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms which give users even more power to engage with their customers. In this demo, we give an overview Relationship Assistant, one of the components of Relatio
Read the full article hereBusiness Process Flows have been around for a while in Dynamics CRM (now Dynamics 365 of course), since 2013 in fact. They are very useful in helping organisations model their processes in CRM and help guide users through stages of the process. However, there are some limitations which are important
Read the full article hereEditable Grid was released as a new feature in Dynamics 365 to much applause from the CRM community. In this blog, I’d like to dive into some things the editable grid can and can’t do. 1. What is editable grid? It's a custom control on an entity. It’s not enabled out of the box for any entity, you h
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