I wish we could customize the fields that appear on the case resolution dialog Every D365 Customer Service user ever Dynamics 365 2020 Wave 1 introduces a new setting that lets you use a quick create form instead of the standard dialog for case resolution. This means that you can change the fields that appear […]
Tip #1293: Make case customer a contact
If you use automatic record creation and update rules in Dynamics 365/CDS to create cases automatically from emails, you should know the default behavior is to set the Customer field on the case to the parent company of the email sender and set the contact field to the email sender. This is great for many […]
Tip #1292: Use the Route Case field
In customer service deployments, you can wind up with a bunch of different business processes. Sometimes these processes can conflict. For example: Workflows and flows to route cases created through the user interface Routing rules to automatically route cases created by workflows and auto create rules Auto record creation rules to create cases from emails […]
Tip #1288: SLA’s and solutions
From the short and sweet department: If you have SLA’s in your solution and the SLA’s exist in the target environment to which you are importing your solution, the SLA’s will be deactivated after you import the solution. If you activate SLA’s via the user interface, your only option is to activate them one at […]
Tip #1274: My auto record creation rule isn’t creating cases
Yesterday an old friend stopped me with a question. How old is he? He knows how to update an isv.config file. He had an email enabled queue set up and incoming emails were being created in the queue, but his auto record creation rule wasn’t turning the emails into cases. I asked him to check […]
Tip #1065: How to get clean Customer Service trial
When Neil “Agile” Benson installed a new Customer Service trial, he got more than he bargained for: Trial Site Map Customization, FreeTrialBaseSolution2, Trial for Field Service, Trial of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Project Service Automation, etc. And he didn’t select or want Field Service or Project Service Automation apps added either. Why does the trial […]
Tip #1021: Everything is an app
If you provisioning a trial and accidentally or deliberately missed the checkboxes enabling Customer Service, you will end up with Dynamics 365 instance with the “facelifted” Web UI but nothing else. Where’s the much tooted Universal User Interface (UUI) that was meant to replace Interactive Service Hub in the version 9? Well, it’s simply not […]
Tip #1011: Case subject/category code strategies
Whether you use the standard Dynamics 365 Case Subject tree, or you use an alternative method and hope that the subject tree dies, categorization of your cases is important if you want to report on them later and analyze your case history. By assigning subjects to cases, you can group cases by category, identify related […]
Tip #826: USD goodness unleashed
Whether you are an experienced Unified Service Desk developer or just about to dip your toes into the dark waters of USD, you are on a constant lookout for good code samples and snippets. But hey, why not to take it one step further? Jayme Pechan, one of the USD fathers, has made the entire […]
Tip #718: Tipster guide to Dynamics CRM and Machine Learning – Part 2
In this video we expand on the Machine Learning topics from the previous video. We show you how to configure Topic Analysis on Knowledge Articles, for better analysis for cases from inside CRM. Give us your feedback, all of it: good, bad, and ugly, I’m sure we can take it. Suggest new topics either in […]