Tips, tricks and ideas for non developer geeks
There are currently 465 articles on my site. You can scroll through the latest posts below, or use the search functionality to find content based on specific key words. Articles cover a range of subjects including Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement, Power Automate, Power Apps Portals, and D365 Marketing (Customer Insights - Journeys).
Very off-brand with this post, but as usual, if this is something that I had an issue with and took me a while to figure out, I guess it could be the same for someone else. So if it is a help to anyone, that’s great! I use WordPress for my website which I love, … Continue reading WordPress Mobile App Issue – Username Password Isn’t Associated With This Site
There are so many options in Realtime Marketing emails for creating conditional and personalised content. Most of it is pretty easy to add, and a few clicks of buttons and you’re on your way. What about when it comes to determining what goes in to the subject or preview text of the email? It’s not … Continue reading Using Inline Conditions In Email Subjects -Customer Insights Journeys
I’m working on a project that has a requirement to move a file from a file column (field) on one table (entity) to a file column of the same name on a different table. There is no way to map these fields using the standard Dataverse mapping functionality, and using Power Automate presented challenges and … Continue reading Moving Documents From One File Column To Another Using Power Automate
If you’ve only read my content for the past few years, you might be forgiven for thinking that the ‘only thing’ I work on is Marketing (Customer Insights – Journeys). I started my CRM/D365 life working on Sales and Customer Service, love to work on Portals projects, use Power Automate and many other Microsoft products … Continue reading Using The Pipeline View To Manage Your Opportunities
If you aren’t already aware, it’s good to understand the difference between how consent is handled in Outbound Marketing vs. Realtime Marketing specifically for Contacts. Outbound looks at three different fields on the Contact record. You have a an Email field, Bulk Email field and Allow Tracking field. All are set to either Allow or … Continue reading Checking Contact Attributes Or Contact Point Consent Records In Realtime Marketing
In previous posts we’ve looked at sending out Event Registration information dynamically rather than needing to create emails individually for different Events. Also, the difference between doing a button with ‘Add To Calendar’ and also pulling in the right QR code. I was asked by a blog reader, how can we text the QR code … Continue reading Sending Event Registration QR Code Via SMS
I’ve written about using the out of the box Marketing Event Registration Created trigger to create emails that can be used in one Journey and still make sure the information in those emails is unique and related to the Event that was registered for. This is a cool feature and great way to just set … Continue reading Send Unique Event Registration Response With QR Code Using No Code
Back in June 2022, I wrote a blog showing how you could create a custom trigger, and build a couple of flows in Power Automate to generate one journey for ALL of your Events if you wanted to. The challenge otherwise was there was no way to get a unique ics file for each person … Continue reading Send Unique Event Registration Response Emails For Each Event Using No Code
There can be challenges when capturing a mobile phone number from a Realtime Marketing form in Customer Insights – Journeys (D365 Marketing). Some of these issues you might not even be aware of. Jake Chen detailed the problems in a recent blog post walking through what happens when turning off the built in validation on … Continue reading Removing Issues With Mobile Phone Numbers On Realtime Forms
There is SO much information in the Power Platform it’s hard to keep up with everything. Sometimes Microsoft makes announcements that we miss, and just happen to find later. This is one of those things, and I figure if it passed me by, it’s likely the same for others. So sharing just in case you … Continue reading No More Dynamics 365 For Phones & Tablets From April 2024
