• Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI - Part 2

      Colin Maitland, 26 November 2020

      In my first article of this series, I introduced a demonstration of a custom 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.In this article I will demonstr

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    • Hiding activities in the timeline

      David Mochrie, 25 November 2020

      As 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.

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    • Sales is Dead

      John Eccles, 24 November 2020

      Boss: Did you get any orders today? Salesman: Yes, I got two! Boss: Congratulations! What were they? Salesman: “Get out!” and “Stay out!” Source: insidesales.comTo sell means ‘to persuade someone of the merits of.’ I want to advocate for NOT selling. Rather, I want to propose that we help customers

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    • Get Items from a SharePoint List using Power Automate with ODATA Filters

      Dominic Liu, 19 November 2020

      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

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    • Part 3: Trigger actions from chatbots using Power Virtual Agents

      Harshani Perera, 18 November 2020

      In 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

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    • 8 more things you may not know about Immersive Excel

      David Mochrie, 17 November 2020

      Back 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

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    • How to Embed a Canvas App on a Model-Driven App Form

      Dominic Liu, 16 November 2020

      Canvas 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

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    • Variables in Microsoft Customer Voice

      Sean Roque, 15 November 2020

      In 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

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    • Part 2: Requesting Information from Users in Power Virtual Agents

      Harshani Perera, 11 November 2020

      Continuing on from my first blog about Power Virtual Agents, I showed you how to create a bot. In Part 2 of this series, I will show you how to request information from the user using the bot. I will continue to use the bot I created earlier however if you don’t have one, follow my first blog to set

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    • Enhanced Duplicate Detection and Merge in Dynamics 365

      Megha Kainth, 10 November 2020

      Microsoft 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

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    • Dynamics 365 User View Recap

      Roz Millar, 09 November 2020

      I 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

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    • Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI

      Colin Maitland, 08 November 2020

      In 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

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    • New features coming for Microsoft Teams - including breakout rooms.

      Ryan Ingram, 05 November 2020

      Microsoft 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

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    • Dynamics 365 God Mode 2.0 for Unified Interface 2020 Wave 2

      Paul Nieuwelaar, 04 November 2020

      The 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

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    • Rising to the occasion or sinking?

      Gayan Perera, 03 November 2020

      In 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

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