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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
After you deploy Dynamics 365, you will want to monitor how well your employees are using the system. Using tools like Microsoft Dynamics 365 Organization Insights you can monitor how active your users are, but that is only part of the user adoption story. In this tip, Tabetha Sheaver explains what you should consider to […]
As Guido “Future Olive Farmer” Preite has discovered, sometimes CrmServiceClient may connect to the wrong instance. Just like that. Dynamics 365 instances now can be backed up and restored at will. The side-effect of this awesomeness is that URLs and unique names may no longer match, leading to the fun times with connections. Here’s the […]
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