You work on a lead in Dynamics 365–you have several conversations and enter some notes. After you qualify the lead, the activities show up on the account or contact record that was created in the qualification process, but the notes are left behind on the lead. Power Automate to the rescue! Create a Flow that […]
Tip #1293: Make case customer a contact
If you use automatic record creation and update rules in Dynamics 365/CDS to create cases automatically from emails, you should know the default behavior is to set the Customer field on the case to the parent company of the email sender and set the contact field to the email sender. This is great for many […]
Tip #1217: Use accounts with web roles in portals
In case you were wondering, we are still around even though it’s been awfully long time since our last tip. Festivities season was upon us but the real reason was that we were just too darn busy. That’s good, right? Now, we are back and, of course, with a bunch of tips. Now, brace yourself. […]
Tip #1118: Ways To Link Accounts and Contacts
There is an on-going problem with most modern CRM systems which is the Account – Contact problem. In short, most CRMs assume a Contact belongs to just one Account and an Account has many Contacts. Often this assumption is not valid. Common examples include medical practitioners, who work for a hospital, have their own practice […]
Tip #921: Clean contacts with Dynamics 365 Outlook app
One of my favorite things about the Dynamics 365 Outlook App is the way that recipients are displayed in the app pane, and how easy it is to update or create contact records in CRM. This makes it very simple to identify when contact information is missing and validate that we have complete contact information […]
Tip #516: Say no to the first name
As some of you know, with the exception of the podcast where we keep straight face, Joel and I disagree a lot. This time I think he is wrong and I am right (I think that most of the time, to be fair). Without further ado, our most recent squabble. George I’ve had it with […]
Tip #456: Smart contact filtering
One of the challenges of using Dynamics CRM in small businesses is that business owner tends to own everything. What did it mean for one of our customers who had Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook installed? The default filter, as you know, is “My Contacts”, i.e. contacts “owned by me”, and she owned all CRM […]
Tip #396: Please subscribe me to all you’ve got
Is there any CRM question that Adam “I bought the truckstop” Vero does not know the answer to? Apparently not. Another mini truck stop date with Adam. When Mitch “Only in Texas” Milam asked for a potion: Anyone have any magic for adding a Contact to multiple marketing lists at once? The Add to Marketing […]
Tip #393: Entity-specific customer lookups
We have received several comments for tip #148. The point of that tip was to explain how to make the customer lookup not return contacts when you type in the name of an account. Based on reader feedback, what many people are looking for is a way to totally restrict the customer lookup to only […]