Today’s tip is from Matt “Almost Resident” Johnson. I recently came across this little conundrum when progressing a Lead through to Opportunity. Maybe this will save someone else a head scratching moment or two. If you convert a Lead to Opportunity by pressing the Qualify button. It will work but the Opportunity it creates will […]
Tip #818: Quick surveys using Microsoft Flow
Surveys are a tricky business. Make them too long and people won’t fill them in, make them too short and you won’t collect the information you are after. However, in customer service, surveys can be conditional. First, we ask customer if they are happy with the support received. If yes, there is nothing more to […]
Tip #817: Display knowledge articles in the portals using custom templates
Dynamics 365 portals come with a specially crafted pages for browsing Knowledgebase Articles by category as well as for displaying the content. KB content page is based on a rewrite-style template and is not customizable. It’s not difficult to put together an entity list and entity form to display the list of the articles and […]
Tip #815: Make your Dynamics 365 portal speak local language
As of the time of writing, Dynamics 365 supports 45 languages. But there is only one English, one Spanish, and one French (to name a few) which makes people in UK, Australia, entire South America, and Canada fairly disappointed, considering that the list of locales contains about 230 entries. We learned to deal with the […]
Tip #814: Setting Regarding field in Microsoft Flow
When you use Microsoft Flow to create a Dynamics 365 activity record, e.g. task, it’s a good practice to relate the activity to another record by setting up Regarding field. Use dynamic values and drop the related record into the Regarding box, right? If you do just that, your flow may fail with the following […]
Tip #813: Renaming default app
I couldn’t believe that there is something in Dynamics 365 world that Scott “Mr. Ribbon Workbench” Durow doesn’t know! Scott When importing solutions from 8.1 into 8.2 or upgrading orgs – is there a trick to rename the default app from ‘Dynamics 365 – custom’ to something else without having to create a new app? […]
Tip #811: Multilingual portals and external authentication providers
After on and off hiatus caused by the festivities season we are back with another annual round of the daily tips. If you have external authentication providers all worked out in your Dynamics 365 Portal, and then you enable multilingual feature so that your portal looks fine in, say, Kazakh (yes, it’s one of the […]
Tip #808: Tracing with Xrm Tooling in Azure Functions
By now you should be able to get your Azure Function triggered from Dynamics 365 and connect back to Dynamics 365 to do some evil awesome things. Debugging Azure Functions however, is not a walk in a park – not like you can set breakpoints and step through the code. Well, you should, of course, […]
Tip #807: Data refresh in Power BI using old endpoint fails
Today’s tip is from our almost regular Matt Johnson. I was recently tasked with creating a Power BI dashboard based directly off the CRM (sorry, I mean Dynamics 365) data. We were in a bit of a rush and even though the performance isn’t great we only needed a few charts and it was only […]
Tip #806: How to display portal version
The break was short-lived! Without further ado, first tip of 2017. If you navigate to your Dynamics 365 Administration Center and display all solutions installed in your organization, you will be able to see the version of the solution(s) installed but not the version of the portal code itself. Just add /_services/about to your portal […]