Wave 1 2020 introduces a great way to visualize your opportunity pipeline on a kanban board, either by stage or status. In today’s video tip we show you how to configure the kanban visualization and how to use it. Give us your feedback, all of it: good, bad, and ugly, I’m sure we can take […]
Tip #1329: Video Guide to 2020 Wave 1: Adding Images to Knowledge Articles
In today’s video tip, we cover how to add images to knowledge articles in Dynamics 365 in 2020 Wave 1. Traditionally, if you wanted to include images in knowledge articles, you had to host them externally and link to the external image file. Starting with 2019 wave 2, you can enable a setting that allows […]
Tip #1328: Video Guide to 2020 Wave 1: Customize the Case Resolution dialog
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 #1326: Video Guide to Installing 2020 Wave 1 Preview
Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2020 Wave 1 is coming in April. To get ready for it we are putting together some video guides to some of the new features. In the first video tip from the series we cover installing the 2020 Wave 1 preview, including how to create a canary environment and installing […]
Tip #1316: Do form embedded charts work in unified interface?
I heard that you can’t put charts on form in Dynamics 365 unified interface. Is that correct? Tip Jar We’ve received this question from several readers, so I decided to check it out. I did this in Dynamics 365 Online v 9.1. I don’t know if this works in on premise 9.0. Add a subgrid […]
Tip #1315: How to remove Field Service from Dynamics 365
Disclaimer for Ben Vollmer: We love field service. If it was food, we would eat it at every meal. That out of the way, sometimes you find yourself with solutions in your environment that you don’t need. Maybe you set up a trial of Dynamics 365 and you accidentally chose the “I want it all” […]
Tip #1312: View process history from Unified Interface forms
Tipster note–this tip is an unsupported tip. It’s not going to damage anything, but it is unsupported and may stop working with future updates. Proceed at your own risk. So you have moved to unified interface, but you want to be able to see the process and workflow history for a record. Microsoft has not […]
Tip #1304: Why can’t I export my failures?
You use the import utility in Dynamics, and sometimes you get the option to export your failed row and sometimes you don’t. What gives? The answer is it depends on your import file type. If you import from XML or from CSV, you will get the Export error rows option. If you import from xlsx, […]
Tip #1302: Should I recreate the account entity?
When deploying Dynamics 365, there are frequently multiple types of companies and organizations that you will be tracking in the system. Some represent customer/client organizations, some may be support and advisory organizations like accountants and legal firms, and some may be miscellaneous types of organizations, such as trade associations. How should you manage multiple categories […]
Tip #1301: When Dynamics 365 for Marketing segments disagree with Advanced Find
Today’s tip is from marketing superstar Allison Fierce. Got any tips? Send them to jar@crmtipoftheday.com. Are you trying to reference a custom lookup field on your contact record when building Segments in D365 for Marketing? Are you not getting any members? It might be because of you haven’t enabled the entity for segments. Enabling an […]