When you use ‘Get items’ action from Power Automate, it will bring back a list of items from your SharePoint List. This however can take a good amount of time for the Flow to run if you have a large number of items in your SharePoint List. On top of that this action is limited at 5000 items, which m
Read the full article hereIn Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series, I showed you how to create a bot and request information from the user. In the last part of this series, I will show you how to take this information and trigger an action to email the Customer Services team.Trigger Action1. Click the + Sign on the Message
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 hereCanvas Apps enable makers to easily design and create custom layouts and themes using the low-code, WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) Canvas App designer. With embedded Canvas Apps, you can bring the power of Canvas Apps to your Dynamics 365 Model-Driven App forms. Canvas Apps are designed to b
Read the full article hereIn a previous blog I discussed how we can map what was formerly Microsoft Forms Pro (now Customer Voice) survey responses to a Dynamics 365 record. In this blog, I will go through how we can use the built-in variables in Customer Voice to pre-populate fields and more!In Customer Voice surveys, we ca
Read the full article hereMicrosoft Dynamics 365 gives us the ability to merge duplicate records that are present in our system. With the new Wave 2 release, duplicate detection and merge capability have been enhanced to help enable organisations to maintain a clean database.This new feature enables users to merge a record b
Read the full article hereI recently was asked “What should we do with records owned by someone leaving the team?” If the records can’t be re-assigned to the person taking over the leaving team member’s role, there is the option to have them owned by the team until they can be reassigned. But to do this don’t forget:1. The t
Read the full article hereIn this article, I will introduce a demonstration of a custom Power Apps Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.It is possible to create and update
Read the full article hereMicrosoft recently released some much-anticipated features for Microsoft Teams on the back of the COVID 19 usage explosion that has characterised 2020. Organisations found themselves needing to push their communication channels and way of working onto the cloud and it almost forced some decisions th
Read the full article hereThe God Mode bookmarklet I unleashed on the world back in 2014 has been one of the most useful Dynamics 365 bookmarklets to date. Over the years there’s been a few minor updates to keep it working with the latest releases of Dynamics 365 (since a lot of what it was doing was unsupported).However, wi
Read the full article hereIn professions such as aviation, construction, engineering and medicine where people are constantly under pressure from the expectation to perform there is a saying “You don’t rise to the occasion; you sink to the level of your training!” For some reason, the IT industry overlooks the importance of
Read the full article hereNow that the Web Client SLAs are officially deprecated, we need to start moving over to the Unified Interface SLAs. You have been able to create SLAs in the Unified Interface for a while now but if you wanted to move your existing ones you had to recreate them. However, now Microsoft has a tool that
Read the full article hereA client of ours with a big Dynamics CRM on-premise database, was recently seeing issues where records were unable to be saved from both the application and through integrations. The error popping up was “Failed to Insert Audit Record”. This was because there was too much auditing, which had been co
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