Tips, tricks and ideas for non developer geeks
There are currently 477 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).
For various reasons, I’ve had to install Visual Studio on a laptop several times over the past year or so. Maybe it’s just bad luck, but I have had issues each time, and each time I’ve been my only line of support to figure out how to resolve those issues. I thought it might be … Continue reading Too Many Issues To Count – Creating Reports In Visual Studio
What is Yammer you might be asking? It’s essentially a social network for your organisation. Yammer only allows users to connect if they have an email address with your companies domain (although you can grant access to others should you wish). If you’re a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement customer, you can activate Yammer Enterprise for free. … Continue reading Bringing People Together With Yammer & D365
Microsoft Portals for D365 are easy enough to set up from the Dynamics 365 Administration Centre. Once it’s set up, it could be used fairly close to the out of the box setup. What if you want something a little more customised and tailored specifically to your business? You might just need some additional skills … Continue reading Customising Microsoft Portals – What Skills Do I Need?
This is the final instalment of the Security Role Miscellaneous Privileges series. Part Four covers the Customisation tab (which could almost do with it’s own blog post… but maybe for another day ????). You can find the previous posts here: Part One, Part Two & Part Three. Miscellaneous Privileges Activate Business Process Flows A security … Continue reading Miscellaneous Privileges on Security Roles – Part Four
Goals in D365/CRM are a bit of a pain in my opinion. Having been tasked with setting them up for about 15 sales people every month I can say it’s not the nicest of features. However, it’s an important feature. I wondered if there would be a way to have them created automatically, and found … Continue reading Creating Useful Goal Updates Via Email
You’ve created an epic portal in your D365 developer organisation but now it’s time to make it live. So how do you get it there? At this current time (January 2018) the only way (short of copying and moving your entire organisation) of moving dynamics 365 portals is to use the Configuration Migration Tool. This … Continue reading Moving Dynamics 365 Portals Between Organisations
When I started learning more about Microsoft Dynamics CRM, one of the first places I went was to sign up on the MS Dynamics Community. It’s a great place to get started and provides a great wealth of knowledge and information for anyone wanting to learn and share. Here are the top cool reasons to … Continue reading 7 Cool Things About The Microsoft Dynamics Community
An app that recently caught my eye in AppSource is D365 Tiles from MiiiA Pty Ltd. In a nutshell the company describes themselves as ‘is a modern software services team dedicated to helping organisations large and small better understand their own business and customers using cloud technology.’ They claim their is the ‘ultimate tile navigation … Continue reading Improve Navigation And Usability With D365 Tiles
In Dynamics 365 you can add custom icons in grids. It’s a great feature but you need some javascript and not everyone is comfortable with that. You can achieve something just as cool by using emojis instead! Create a new field with a data type of Option Set. Make sure you have sourced your emojis … Continue reading Using Emojis in Option Set Fields
We’ve had Part One and Part Two to help explain the Miscellaneous Privileges for Core Records, Marketing, Sales, Service and Service Management. Part Three will look at the Privacy Related Privileges and Miscellaneous Privileges found on the Business Management tab on a Security Role. Hold on to your hats, this is a long one!!! Privacy … Continue reading Miscellaneous Privileges on Security Roles – Part Three
