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Microsoft Forms Pro provides you with two options when creating a form. You can either create a Survey, or you can create a Quiz. The Quiz is part of the original Microsoft Forms offering. If you haven’t used it before, hopefully this blog will help as it looks at how to create a simple Quiz. … Continue reading Creating A Simple Quiz With Microsoft Forms
If you’ve used Microsoft Forms, you’ll know it’s pretty straightforward to use and provides you with a quick tool to create surveys and forms to send to people. Enter Microsoft Forms Pro, which is currently in PREVIEW mode, and it’s looking more interesting. Given the name, there will most likely be a cost associated in … Continue reading Creating Surveys Using Microsoft Forms Pro
Last week I was lucky enough to be able to attend the User Group Summit event in Amsterdam. Not only that, I had a session that I presented all about Power BI (you can see it here in video format if interested in that kind of thing!). So, what do I know? Primarily, I am … Continue reading Don’t ‘Stay In Your Lane’
On Thursday March 28th I spoke at the User Group Summit event in Amsterdam. My session was all about Power BI and helped attendees ‘Find out how map visuals, images, Dynamics 365 CE data, and customer feedback can be used to create useful, actionable Power BI reports. Visual and interactive reporting can assist account managers … Continue reading Using Power BI to Create A Visual Overview of Your Customers
If you have ever used a portal for Dynamics 365 you will have noticed that the navigation along the top has a little house to indicate the home page link. If you edit the navigation you will see that the Image URL field contains .fa.fa-home. Ever wondered what that is? It’s using something called Font … Continue reading Using Font Awesome To Improve Your Portal Users Experience
There is so much buzz going on about the User Group Summit Europe event in Amsterdam next week, and I can’t wait to present there. However, I’m now looking at the week after, and getting ready for my presentation at the very first D365/CRMUG happening in Nottingham on Thursday April 4th! It’s been organised by … Continue reading D365UG/CRMUG – Presentation in Nottingham
In a previous post, I walked through adding a portal inbox and messaging process. This provides the ability to create messages for portal users to log in and access, along with a nifty unread message indicator like you would find on many social media sites. What if you want to include documents attached to the … Continue reading Adding Documents To Portal Messages
If you log in to any social media platform you’ll see a red notification badge telling you how many unread messages you have. We don’t have this in the Microsoft Dynamics Portal by default, but with a little effort we can create this, and provide the user with a notification count and an inbox to … Continue reading Create A Portal Inbox & Messaging Process
So in the last part of this post, we are going to finish off with a few simple bits of code, put together our flow using Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow), and then walk through to see it in action. In Part Two, we looked at adding our Entity Forms, and the Portal Comment one … Continue reading Adding Portal Profile Photos Using Power Automate, Liquid, CSS & JS – Part Three
In Part One of this series, we looked at what we wanted to achieve in the portal for the user experience, with the ability for them to upload and see their own image. We also looked at the CSS needed, and the forms required. Now we’ll at the Entity Permissions needed. First, we need to … Continue reading Adding Portal Profile Photos Using Power Automate, Liquid, CSS & JS – Part Two
