Tip #1036: Organization Insights Is The Administrator’s Best Friend

Dynamics now has AppSource where you can download trials and various other goodies for your Dynamics 365 instance. To access it, click on the chevron (down arrow) at the top level of your Dynamics 365 Ribbon, then click “Get more apps”. One which is invaluable for any Dynamics instance is Organization Insights from Microsoft. This […]

Tip #1035: HTML codes in Voice of the Customer

Today’s tip comes from Jeff Weresch. Got a tip? Send it to jar@crmtipoftheday.com. Want to have more control over the formatting or spacing of your questions in Dynamics 365 Voice of the Customer? You can use html codes to control how the text will be rendered. For example, we want “Highly Dissatisfied” to appear over […]

Tip #1034: Set Yourself Up For Efficient Importing

Prepare for import

Importing into Dynamics 365 can be concerning to even the most hardened of CRM consultants. Often, if we are importing into a production system, we have tight schedules to get in and out before the users log in. If we are still importing data when the users come online, the system can be unacceptably slow […]

Tip #1014: How to target delegated administrator in apps

Security administration

I love when people ask a question but then answer it themselves within couple minutes. Take, for example, Steve “RapidStart” Mordue. Has anyone else experienced issues with attempting to use an App Designer built app with Delegated Admin Role? Before I could even type my a non-answer stating that only someone insane would try something […]

Tip #1013: Include attributes that are not there

Hidden figure

New Developer Guide, as it turned out, contains a lot of useful nuggets, little enhancements that make developer’s life much easier. How many times did you need some field values for the use in javascript but didn’t really want to include the fields on the form? Something like lattitude and longitude, for example. Would it […]