Tips, tricks and ideas for non developer geeks
When I first started my website back in 2017, everything I wrote was about Microsoft CRM, which became Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement, which is on the Common Data Service, which is tied the Power Platform. This category is kind of a fall back for most of the posts, so you’ll find all kinds of things in here!
You might already know that Emojis can be used in the Power Platform. If not, then you can read all about it here, and read the first post I wrote about Emojis and using them in Optionsets. Using emojis is fun, but I’ve also seen (and used them myself) them used for serious, legitimate real-world … Continue reading Using Different Fonts In The Power Platform
*** UPDATE *** – it seems that although you can add the Email Signatures option to your sitemap, the ability to add individual signatures will only be available for Wave 2 2020. So, if you haven’t opted in to it yet, you won’t be able to take this approach until you do that (which you … Continue reading Email Signatures with Images & Hyperlinks – Part Two
If you’ve worked on any projects for Customer Service, and Case Management, or you are responsible for this specific area within your organisation, you likely set up a holiday schedule and customer service schedule and then forgot about it. It’s likely going to be an area you look at once or twice a year. Adding … Continue reading Adding Customer Service & Holiday Schedules in Dynamics 365 UI
In June 2020, I put together a 30-day series that covered Google Analytics. Since then, I have had several questions about how you can add it to a Dynamics Portal, but using Google Tag Manager. So a quick blog and video hopefully will help! Here are the main points, but the video walks through the … Continue reading Using Google Analytics & Google Tag Manager In A Dynamics Portal
When you are creating your marketing emails, how much are you considering the subject line? Are you paying much attention and considering how it will appear in different mail clients? What about the preview text? Is it important? When creating your marketing emails it might not be that obvious where to add the preview text, … Continue reading Making The Most Of The Email Subject And Preview Text
When sending out emails using the Dynamics 365 for Marketing app, a Customer Journey is needed each time. For each Customer Journey, you must determine the Content Settings to use for the entirety of the journey. Your Content Settings hold things like the organisations address, social media links, the subscription centre and a link for … Continue reading Using Content Settings For Dynamic Social Profile Links
Recently I was asked by someone how they could show some of the responses from a Forms Pro survey directly on a Case record. You can easily set a Survey Invitation regarding a case, and the corresponding Survey Response also comes back linked to the case. That’s simple to do (see here and here), but … Continue reading Display Survey Response Details On Case Record
We’ve all been sent marketing emails that we ignore, no one is immune. How can we make sure that the emails WE send from Dynamics 365 for Marketing have more chance of being opened… and even more important, being read! The sender of an email is a good place to start. Are you just sending … Continue reading Sending Emails From The Contact Owner With D365 Marketing
After changes were made to the Forms Pro entities so that they could be edited, I’ve thought of different ways that could help people trying to review and monitor the number of survey responses received. As standard, there are 2,000 responses a month that can be received (you can increase this as needed). In another … Continue reading Setting Up Notifications For Approaching Survey Response Limits
If you have a survey in Forms Pro there might be occasion where you would like to have different text or instructions displayed to the respondents depending on how they answer specific questions. We have a way we can do this by using a Choice question and Branching Rules to determine what gets displayed. First … Continue reading Displaying Information Using Branching Rules & Choice Questions
