If you try to use the Dynamics 365 mobile app on iOS and experience the app repeatedly returning to the login screen, there is a simple fix.
Log in to D365 in Safari.
Safari will prompt you with the question “would you like to increase the database size for (URL of your D365 environment)?”
Answer yes, and the app should work correctly for you.
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I’m testing Unified Interface and when I create an activity from the timeline control I don’t see the quick create form.
Reader question
One thing that can cause this to happen is if you don’t have the Appointment, Phone Call, and Task entities in your model driven app.
In other words, if you just have the Activities entity in your app, but don’t have the entities for the individual activity entities, users that create activities from the timeline control will get the full activity form, not the quick create form.
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We use Dynamics 365 Knowledge Base in USD (Unified Service Desk – t.j). We have links to PDF’s and images of schematics and detailed drawings in our KB articles. When users click the link they see the complex image or document in the KB article frame. How can we open the image or document full screen?
Reader question
If you have a link in your KB article, you can right mouse click on the link and select “open in a new window.” This will launch the link in a new window.
When Joel entered this tip, my first reaction was “Really, Joel? Run out of things to say?”. But then I remembered how popular tend to be our simplest tips about shortcuts or scrolling, and all other userly things. And you may have noticed that we stopped adding target="blank" to the links in our tips.
So where’s your promised $0.02, you may ask? Here you are, three more ways to open a hyperlink in a new tab (or window, depending on your browser settings):
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It’s Friday afternoon and the management asked you to create a quick chart illustrating your team’s bug handling pipeline. Easy-peasy.
Step 1 – extract data from the Squash-A-Bug system
| Status | Count |
|---|---|
| New | 4268 |
| Under Review | 1921 |
| Planned | 516 |
| Completed | 229 |
Step 2 – visualize it as a small dashboard:
That…. does not… look… good… (tried funnel – that’s even worse)
We appear to be choking under the flood of new bugs… It’s Friday, for crying out loud, can’t give bad news to the management!
(busily searches dusted brain corners for the high education leftovers)
Found!
Here’s your tip of the day:
If your numbers are disproportionally skewed, use the logarithmic scale. It brings the values “closer together”
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And the end result:
Ahhh, that’s much better. Take that, management!
Friday night, here I come!
Thank you, Dynamics 365 for the idea (pun intended), and Crissy Jarvis on Unsplash for the cover photo.
In some environments with Dynamics 365 v9, when you go to the URL for your Dynamics 365 URL you get the classic default app, while in others you get the Unified Interface app selector.
To control this behavior, go to the Power Platform Admin Center , select Environments and select the desired environment.
Click the settings gear and select Behavior.
Set Open in classic mode to off if you want the URL to go to the Unified Interface app menu.
Thanks Shidin Kuruvath Haridas for the great tip. Got any tips? Send them to jar@crmtipoftheday.com.
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People have been reporting that Dynamics 365 triggers in Flow are not consistent. Sometimes they fire twice, sometimes not at all, sometimes they fire after a manual test run. There are some other weird side-effects I did not even look into. Why? Because of one of them quick tips.
Where possible, use Common Data Service connector instead of Dynamics 365 one.
There is literally not much to add. Yes, CDS connector does have some functionality yet to be completed, hence “where possible” disclaimer.
Send your questions and comments either below or to @crmtipoftheday on Twitter.
When deploying model-driven apps, there are multiple potential points of failure that can affect users’ ability to access part or all of the app. The following is a non-exhaustive list of some of the more common areas to check if the user can’t see the app or access certain parts of it:
Lesson learned: building an app is (fairly) easy but due diligence must be taken to ensure that the user’s of the app have appropriate privileges at multiple levels of components.
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I did give some consideration to continuing the torture steady stream of Dynamics 365 Portals tips but we have a backlog of good tips sent to us by the community so let’s see what’s in the tipping jar first.
Today’s tip is from Shailesh Wath and you too can send your tip to jar@crmtipoftheday.com. (t.j – I think some of us stumbled over this one way or another but credit is where credit due. We also replaced some of the references to the classic admin experience with the modern equivalent – if you go new, go new all the way).
After clients are upgraded to Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement version 9, users are unable to use classic functionality to run OnDemand Workflows which was a showstopper since it was a routine task and much needed functionality. To fix that:
After that, all OnDemand Workflow for an entity will be under Flow > Run Workflow
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PS. And we are not done yet with the portal tips, stay tuned!
You want to embed a canvas app in a model driven app, but you want to start with one that you have already built, not create one from the embedded canvas app control.
Go to powerapps.com and click the (…) by the app you wish to embed. Click Details, then find and copy the App ID.
On the D365/model-driven app form, add the embedded canvas app control where desired and click the configure property button. Paste the App ID copied in step 1.
Click “Customize” to launch your canvas app in PowerApps Studio. This will add the ModelDrivenFormIntegration component to your existing canvas app. Don’t forget to enable the embedded canvas app experimental control.
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I recently was getting an error when I would try to configure predictive opportunity scoring or Talking Points in Dynamics 365.
If you don’t mind losing your existing predictive scoring model data, the following solution fixed it for me:
Once you reinstall the solution your AI for sales functionality should work.
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