If you’re like me and have been working with Dynamics 365 for many years, you’ll know all about dependent components. Or at least you think you do! I wanted to delete a lookup field on a custom entity called Reimbursement. Of course, I had removed the lookup from the form, any views and checked all
Read the full article hereThere are numerous ways you can slice a cake to get the perfectly sized piece that you want. Likewise, there are many ways you would want to group or segment your customers to fit your business’s marketing needs. Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Marketing enables you to slice and dice exactly as your bus
Read the full article hereIn Dynamics 365 you can create Holiday Calendars which contain the dates when your business observes a holiday. These are important when using SLAs as they will be taken into account when handling response times. However, you may want to use these holidays in your own custom logic. For example, you
Read the full article hereWhen using Azure Active Directory B2C you can control how your users access, register and manage their accounts for your applications. While configuring Azure AD B2C you have the option to use User Flows or Custom Policies to handle these processes. User Flows make use of the Azure Portal Interface,
Read the full article hereIn the new wave of Dynamics 365 there are some interesting updates to the Customer Service Management features. These include updates to routing rules and SLAs to bring them into the unified interface: a customizable Case Resolution dialogue, updates to the email creator, and much more. Check out Mi
Read the full article herePreviously I had written about how to switch business process flow in Dynamics 365 here. This has the fundamentals of how to switch a BPF but did not touch on deleting the previously set BPF. You must delete the previously set BPF for there to be only one active BPF, users may see the old one if thi
Read the full article hereThe Issue:Recently, I created a Workflow that set a User lookup field on a record and sends an email to a contact. In this email the updated field is used in two different ways; the first is by accessing it directly from the Case - this gives the Full Name of the User. The second way is by using the
Read the full article hereWe recently used Azure AD B2C to handle the Sign-In and Sign-Up functionality for a Dynamics 365 Portal. We ran into an issue with the Sign-Up page where a Portal User would fill in all their details, but their account would not be fully created.We found that the B2C Sign-Up page was creating the B2
Read the full article hereIf you’re a Dynamics 365 Developer like me and frequently use the XrmToolBox, you’ll have noticed that the Plugin Registration tool recently stopped working with the Dynamics 365 Environment has the 2020 Wave 1 update. On load of the Plugin Registration tool I got the following error.I could registe
Read the full article hereA few months ago, I thought the greatest threat to our jobs would be Artificial Intelligence and not a tiny virus but then I thought, this too shall pass however AI will not.Every day AI is becoming more incorporated into our daily lives, it suggests movies on streaming services, provides auto repli
Read the full article hereWhen creating a PCF control for Dynamics 365, we have several types of properties that we can add to our control as input parameters. These can be bound to a field in Dynamics 365 or configured as just a static input which is configured at the control level.In scenarios where you want to provide som
Read the full article hereWhen merging records in Dynamics 365, all lookups referencing the deactivated record will be replaced with the master record. For example: there is a Case for managing merged Accounts and you need to keep the original Account look up reference after the Accounts are merged.Currently there is no way
Read the full article hereIn one of my previous blogs, I raved about how much I loved the new D365 Unified Interface (which I still do!) and now I’ve found something I love again. This time it’s Microsoft To-Do. After getting my Windows 10 update fixed recently, the first thing I did was install Microsoft To-Do. The sole pur
Read the full article hereIn a previous blog post, I talked about how to connect to the Dynamics 365 SDK with the new XrmTooling nuget package, and stepped through the best way to connect using an Azure App Registration with Client ID and Secret.In this blog post I’m going to explore a couple of other ways to connect, if you
Read the full article hereWhat is Online Customer Self-Service?This blog could have been about Online Self-Service because employees, students, partners, and other stakeholders might benefit from online self-service. But I am focusing on customer self-service because generally that is where the greatest opportunity lies.Cust
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