If you’re tired of the endless search for how to mirror your iPhone to a Windows PC, here’s a simple solution. Forget about third-party apps and WiFi troubles—use Microsoft Teams or Zoom and have a meeting with yourself and share the screen. It’s that easy!
Tip #1173: Who needs VBA? Skype for Business, that’s who!
This post has soooo nothing to do with Dynamics, it’s not even funny. You know what else is less funny than not funny? When you have 20 minutes before an important Skype for Business session where you’re presenting but any attempt to upload the presentation is met with this: In case the picture is too […]
Tip #1160: Bring up client performance center
I’m known to be a bit verbose but at the same time I personally like the tips that are like nuggets – small, shiny, and mostly invisible. This tip comes from Natraj “Always Debugging” Yegnaraman (and you can send your nugget to jar@crmtipoftheday.com too!). Add perf=true URL param in UCI Unified Interface to display performance […]
Tip #1048: Save As is a new New
There are a few obnoxious special, from a customizer point of view, entities in Dynamics 365. Quote Product, Order Product, Invoice Product, to name but a few. These entities have some artificial limitations around what can be customized. For example, new views cannot be created; NEW button just isn’t there! Sometimes we are so immersed […]
Tip #898: Delegate tracking and server side synchronization
tl;dr Delegate tracking of contacts and appointments does not work with server-side synchronization or with the new Dynamics 365 Outlook app. Read more Consider the scenario where the company owner, Ms. Bigwig, wants her appointments and contacts tracked in CRM, but she is too busy to maintain her calendar herself, so she has her assistant […]
Tip #497: Avoid multi-column sections if using mobile
Another awesome TIL from Scott “Captain Redlaces” Sewell. tl;dr Avoid multi-column sections on your CRM forms. (If you’re going to use the Mobile Apps) Today I Learned If you’re going to use one of the mobile apps in your implementation, avoid using multi-column sections – the layout of these fields will be significantly different from […]
Tip #495: Include “Name” as first column in views for mobile or Safari
We now have so many tips coming from Scott “Captain Redlaces” Sewell that the pressure is mounting to add Captain as ah honorary tipster or, at very least, dedicate a category for him. As suggested by the man himself: “TIL”. Today I Learned If you’re going to use mobile App or Safari – best practice […]