The chart week by Ulrik “CRM Chart Guy” Carlsson continues! Let’s be real. Everyone loves Power BI, but did you know that it is mostly because of the fancy colors. Well, your regular old real-time charts, that updates way way faster than a DirectQuery Power BI visual can have fancy Power BI colors too. Open […]
Have you ever wished you could link from a table row in Power BI to over to Dynamics CRM – allowing users to filter and view the records in a grid or matrix in PowerBI and when they want more detail, they can click to open the corresponding record CRM? Wish granted! To begin: ensure you’ve […]
PowerBI and Dynamics CRM are an up and coming celebrity “power couple” – they’re seen in all the trendiest places and news about them is reported widely. That said, it came as a surprise to many that Microsoft quietly overhauled the existing Dynamics CRM Sales Content Pack and added a brand new Service Manager Content […]
When you’re trying to connect Power BI to Dynamics CRM by entering Dynamics CRM OData Service URL, you may receive an obscure message “Parameter validation failed. Please make sure all parameters are valid.” What Power BI is trying to tell you is that the license assigned to you is the Power BI freebie and not […]
If you’ve been following our Voice of the Customer videos, you may have been tempted to install the solution and try it for yourself. For those of you using PowerBI to do some cool reporting on your CRM data, a timely word of warning from Jukka “Survivor” Niiranen: Currently there’s a known issue with the […]
Don’t be a literal as me and make this same mistake when setting up a connection to CRM Online for PowerBI. Read the fine print! See how in the example there is no trailing space to include in the oData service endpoint! You will get an error when you copy and paste the URL from the […]
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