This blog is the second in a series of blogs focused on Microsoft’s analytics service, Power BI. In the previous blog I focused on importing data into the Power BI desktop version, while in this blog I will be focusing on Power Query. The data I imported as an example was from the “Rotten Tomatoes T
Read the full article hereRecently I was fortunate enough to participate in a workshop focused on Microsoft’s analytics service, Power BI. This blog will be the first in a series of blogs describing my experiences with Power BI. In this blog, I will focus on importing data into the Power BI desktop version. The remainder of
Read the full article hereRecently while attempting to view audit data I was surprised to see that values in the "New Value" column had been replaced by a weird symbol, which can be seen in the screenshot below. I found that it was a common problem which would occur when auditing had been turned off. After checking and confi
Read the full article hereRecently one of our clients had a situation with Dynamics 365 Marketing Lists where they wanted the ability to select and then assign Marketing List Members to themselves or to other users. As this functionality is not provided out of the box in Dynamics CRM I attempted a few workarounds before fina
Read the full article hereSince Microsoft’s Build 2016 Conference there has been a huge buzz around Artificial Intelligence Bots and Microsoft’s Bot Framework for developers, and recently I have been diving into the discovery and development of these bots for different platform. Bots aren’t anything new, they’ve been around
Read the full article hereBusiness Process Flows (BPFs) can be used to guide users through different phases to reach a desired outcome. BPFs make use of stages and steps, where stages are different phases in a process which users can complete one by one before moving on, and steps are fields within a stage which can be used
Read the full article hereBusiness Process Flows (BPF for short) are used in CRM systems to guide users towards a desired outcome by defining steps for users to follow. In some instances, these processes are added to entities, such as the Lead entity, and can be very useful and for other instances they may not be needed. Dur
Read the full article hereCRM 2013 introduced tooltips which would be shown when users hovered their mouse over a label on the form. These tooltips texts could be set when creating or editing a field in the ‘Description’ area. At the of writing this blog that same custom tooltip functionality is not available for any fields
Read the full article hereRecently while working on a project I came across a weird error which prevented me from adding any kind of process to a solution. At the time, the solution I was attempting to add to did not contain many processes, having a single Business Process Flow, a single Workflow, and a couple of Business Ru
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