Woot-woot! Our video channel now has the official URL: https://www.youtube.com/CRMTipOfTheDay! (Hint: take a minute and subscribe). To celebrate this achievement, our video dude, Derik, has gone MIA. After 38 straight weeks of videos, can’t hold it against him. So today’s tip is not a video but something that has been on my todo list for […]
tl;dr Teach your users how to use keyboard in a lookup control Longer I know it’s an old piece of wisdom but this morning I just couldn’t help myself when observing the typical frustrating pattern of a user trying struggling to fill in the lookup field: remove hands from keyboard, grab the mouse, struggle to […]
I started using CRM for Outlook, and now I get notified when my contacts have birthdays. Why does CRM do that? First of all, CRM doesn’t do this. At least it’s not a direct feature. This is a great example of how CRM functionality can have indirect behavior due to the default actions of other […]
This is not even a real truckstop, more of a drive-by, really. Q Larry “Tex” Lentz wonders if they’re was a way to use Advanced Find to search for Quick Campaigns. Can’t see it from AF editor. & A You won’t find it by name in the Advanced Find, Larry, since Quick Campaign is […]
¡Hola! Es viernes, mis amigos and that means tacos and another video. Hierarchical Visualizations provide a great way to work with hierarchical data in Dynamics CRM both on system and custom entities. In this video we show you how to define a hierarchical relationship, configure the settings, and consume them in CRM. Don’t forget the […]
Mini Truckstop Gotta love truckstops. Someone asks an interesting question, bunch of people send the answers in, all we need to do is to copy, link, verify, write some code, double-check, remove sensitive information, format, test, publish. Easy! This time the question comes from none other than Julie “There is no place like home” Yack. […]
One of my favorite tips for mailbox management and Outlook comes from a nearly decade old post by Scott Hanselman. Create a folder called “CC,” then create an Outlook/Exchange rule that moves emails where I am not in the To line to the CC folder. This leaves your inbox for things directly related to you, […]
Mini Truckstop We have not done a truckstop for a while but Joel “Standing on the shoulders of other MVPs” Lindstrom just could not help himself. Question I work with many customer service deployments, and a very common request for certain types of groups is to have a way to auto feed a queue item […]
This week, your humble tipsters (and also George) are meeting with the Dynamics CRM Product team in Redmond, WA. This annual pilgrimage to the Advanta building is an opportunity to hear from the good people who make CRM great – and to attempt to sway their opinion through reasoned feedback, repetition of opinions, repetition of […]
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