This tip is from Miquel “Third musketeer” Julien (who runs an excellent http://www.guidemicrosoftdynamics.com/ French Dynamics 365 tipping site). If your Bing Maps integration is disabled (under Settings > Administration > System Settings > General tab) then any section containing Bing Maps control will be hidden, regardless of any controls it may contain. 1,000 words™
Tip #1103: Chart styling cheat sheet
This post concludes chart week fortnight on CRM Tip of the Day. Thanks to Ulrik for these great tips. It isn’t always obvious where to go in the chart XML to make changes to certain areas. We’ve created this handy cheat sheet so you can see where to go to change what in the chart. […]
Tip #1102: Use hatch style in your charts and dashboards if you have color blind employees
One of the silent minorities in business are color blind people. Since dashboards rely on color coding to tell the different series apart, decoding those charts can be challenging for some users. Now, the palette of colors that comes out-of-the-box are generally chosen so people who have a form color blindness will still be able […]
Tip #1101: Add a scale break to charts
Whenever you have a chart that combine very high and very low values, it can be difficult to assess individual columns. For these situations, you can add a scale break to the chart. Adding a scale break gives you a better view of how the comparative segment are doing against each other, but you will […]
Tip #1099: Add Annotations to Charts
After a brief interruption, we continue the chart week fortnight by Ulrik “CRM Chart Guy” Carlsson. Do you need more descriptions in your charts, or maybe add a little corporate branding, look no further than the Advanced Chart Editor for the XrmToolBox. You can add more text to your charts via a node called annotations. […]
Tip #1098: Dynamics 365 Connected Field Service Demo Builder
We interrupt the chart week fortnight by Ulrik “CRM Chart Guy” Carlsson to bring you the all important message from “Hey, look, kids: Big” Ben Vollmer. Installing and configuring Connected Field Service for Dynamics 365 can seem confusing to some customers and partners. With the “hard” work done in Azure, it takes some getting used […]
Tip #1097: Change chart labels on currency values to show in Millions or Thousands
The chart week by Ulrik “CRM Chart Guy” Carlsson continues! Do you think it’s relevant to know if the pipeline for a given sales person is USD 2,878,345.13 or is a simple USD 2.88M in a big font just much quicker to read. The chart XML allow you to modify the number formatting as above […]
Tip #1096: Apply Power BI theme to regular charts
The chart week by Ulrik “CRM Chart Guy” Carlsson continues! Let’s be real. Everyone loves Power BI, but did you know that it is mostly because of the fancy colors. Well, your regular old real-time charts, that updates way way faster than a DirectQuery Power BI visual can have fancy Power BI colors too. Open […]
Tip #1095: Add percentage labels to pie charts
Welcome to chart week! This week on CRM Tip of the Day, Ulrik “CRM Chart Guy” Carlsson brings us a chart tip every day. When you create a pie chart on the est. revenue on opportunities broken down by account, or any other currency field, the pie chart automatically displays the value of the slice […]
Tip #1081: Magic of managed solutions and sitemaps
The topic of managed solutions and sitemaps turned out to be so popular that a few trucks stopped by for the first Tipping Truckstop of 2018. tl;dr Before installing any managed solution, backup your sitemap. Because Managed solutions and sitemap are like magicians and their assistants: one distracts the audience, another one disappears. The story […]