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We send out emails and assume they get to their desired destination. Every so often you might get some kind of notification if the recipient’s email address is wrong, or no longer exists… but then that’s an issue on their side. What about the times your emails are not received? How do you know? What … Continue reading Why Are My Emails Going To Junk?
If you are using the Dynamics Marketing App, you will be familiar with creating Segments. For those who haven’t delved into that world, or are just getting started, a Segment is created using the marketing insights service, and compiled with a query builder tool embedded directly within a segment. While recently creating a segment that … Continue reading Adding Additional Entities For Segment Searches
Right now, the world is in a very strange place. We are each trying to find our new normal. You might be lucky, and can carry on doing what you’ve always done, working from home on projects you love. You could also have found yourself with less, or even no work depending on the industry … Continue reading It’s Time To Learn
I’ve written so much about variables in Forms Pro and what you can do with them. After a chat with Welly Lee, Head of Product for Forms Pro at Microsoft, he shared yet another way we can use variables to create personalised surveys, and pass hidden variables back through survey responses. In this post, we … Continue reading Passing Variables Through The Forms Pro Survey URL
I recently came across a situation with a client using a Unified Interface app and using email templates on emails sent from cases. When creating an email and choosing the insert template option, there was just no way to find and pick from the case related email templates that should have been available. Although this … Continue reading Issues Selecting Email Templates For Regarding Entities
Using variables in your Forms Pro surveys is essential when creating a personalised experience for your respondents. There are so many ways to use them to display data in both email templates and surveys, but they can also be used to determine which language to display the survey in on a person by person basis. … Continue reading Using The Locale Variable To Send Multilingual Emails & Surveys
If you have been using Forms Pro for any length of time, you should know that the power of the survey tool lies in the ability to run flows to send survey invitations and to run flows when survey responses are received. Your flows to send out the invites should be set up when specific … Continue reading Triggering Power Automate For A Specific Survey
Creating a Forms Pro survey is pretty simple. Adding in some logic to check for a number, or make sure a field is formatted as an email address is straight forward enough too. We also have the ability to do formatting checks using custom regular expressions which I wrote about here. I’ve been told it’s … Continue reading Ten Custom Expressions To Use With Forms Pro
Once you have sent out your survey invitations (either direct from Forms Pro or using Power Automate to generate and send out the invitation emails), how do we know what’s happened to them? If you have looked in the Common Data Service using a Model-Driven App, or have paid attention to the invitations in Forms … Continue reading What Does The Survey Invite Status Mean?
For each presentation I do, I hope at least someone will find value in the content, and maybe even want to get more info. Subscribing to my newsletter is a good way to do this. About a year ago I started using Forms Pro surveys as part of the session, and always include a question … Continue reading Adding Newsletter Subscribers To ConverKit Via Zapier & Power Automate
