Mapping Lookup values from Dynamics 365 Marketing Form Submissions with Power Automate

Mapping Lookup values from Dynamics 365 Marketing Form Submissions with Power Automate

How to make sense of lookup responses in a Marketing Form submission, when the form response says {"Id":"b580cd20-8e2a-ee11-bdf4-0022482578b5","LogicalName":"amey_country"} but what it actually means is ‘Australia’. If your users can’t speak GUID then this ones for you.

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Convert a spreadsheet or CSV file into a Marketing List in Dynamics 365 - Strings

Convert a spreadsheet or CSV file into a Marketing List in Dynamics 365 - Strings

How to import a spreadsheet list of contacts or leads, into a marketing list in Dynamics 365 or Dataverse. If they are all new rows, its not too bad, but otherwise its a very manual export/import/VLOOKUP hodgepodge.

This post will show you how to create a flow which turns a CSV file with display names, into a populated marketing list in Dynamics 365. The fields are flexible. Import Contacts or Leads. Use New or Existing rows. Populated Standard or Custom fields.

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Create sales tasks and phone calls directly from Real-time Dynamics 365 Marketing Journeys

Create sales tasks and phone calls directly from Real-time Dynamics 365 Marketing Journeys

Handing over a good lead to the sales team at the right time is important. Knowing when a prospect needs further enrichment is valuable. Wouldn’t it be good if we could automate activities and notifications, at the right time, based on customer interactions as part of our real-time marketing journeys?

Activate a custom trigger to call a flow that creates the sales activity from within a marketing journey to help you achieve your marketing metric KPIs

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Mapping Option Sets/Choice Labels from Dynamics 365 Marketing Form Submissions to Custom Tables with Power Automate

Mapping Option Sets/Choice Labels from Dynamics 365 Marketing Form Submissions to Custom Tables with Power Automate

How to make sense of option set/choice responses in a Marketing Form submission, when the form response says ‘15’ but what it actually means is ‘My dog ate my homework’. If your users can’t speak integer then this ones for you.

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Trigger flow when a Marketing or Subscription List is updated

Trigger flow when a Marketing or Subscription List is updated

How to trigger a flow when a Marketing or Subscription list is updated in Dynamics 365, understand what kind of update just happened, then get the GUIDs you need to do your next steps whatever that might be.

I want to update the Marketing Preferences and Consents in response to a subscription list update!

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Which web page was my Dynamics 365 Marketing form submitted from?
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Which web page was my Dynamics 365 Marketing form submitted from?

How to use the same dynamics 365 marketing embedded form on multiple pages in your website, and being able to know which web page the form was submitted from.

For example you have a general enquiry form which is a request for more details, you embed this on multiple pages about various services you offer. It is valuable to know which service the enquiry is about, without relying on the customers message to tell you or having to create different forms for each page with a hidden field set to a default value.

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Mapping Dynamics 365 Marketing Form Submissions to Custom Tables with Power Automate

Mapping Dynamics 365 Marketing Form Submissions to Custom Tables with Power Automate

Marketing forms in Dynamics 365 are great for creating and updating contact and/or lead records, but not much else. The documented way to handle form submissions beyond lead or contact is to build a classic workflow but that in itself is very restrictive. By moving the automation into a Power Automate flow it opens up many more doors in terms of generation submission reports, notifications and sophisticated record manipulation that cannot be achieved with classic workflows alone.

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Set Customer Voice Survey Variables using Dynamics 365 Marketing

Set Customer Voice Survey Variables using Dynamics 365 Marketing

Sending Dynamics 365 Customer Voice surveys via Dynamics 365 Marketing is possible today already. Unfortunately it is not possible to set any survey variables (except first name and last name which is taken from the contact record)… until now!

This post is going to be using the ‘Real-Time Marketing’ functionality of Dynamics 365 Marketing to send personalised customer voice surveys, with all the variables you could ever dream of!

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Create custom Dataverse triggers for Dynamics 365 Marketing - without a developer!

Create custom Dataverse triggers for Dynamics 365 Marketing - without a developer!

Real-time marketing comes with a bunch of pre built triggers which come with the installation such as ‘Contact Created’ and ‘Lead Created’ but obviously none for my custom tables. How to create your own real-time Dynamics Marketing customs triggers based on activity/data in Dataverse - without a developer!

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