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Automate Timeline Posts in Dataverse Model-driven Apps for important events
Within Dataverse is there a way to have automatic posts to the timeline for events such as entry and exit of business process stages, change in ownership of the record, etc.?“ - of course!
How to automate useful auto posts into the timeline using Power Automate so you can get stuff done - quicker. The Dataverse timeline isn't just for activities in Model-driven Power Apps.
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
Insert your email signature from Dataverse using Power Automate
If you are using Power Automate to create dataverse emails then the users signature will not be automatically populated (even if it’s been configured correctly in Dataverse!).
There is no guarantee that the user will have an email signature set up/assigned correctly. How to ensure we accommodate for both scenarios and automatically populate the email signature seamlessly as part of your flow.
Document generation before your eyes and on demand with Power Automate
Transform how you automate and orchestrate document generation in Dynamics 365 and model-driven Power Apps. How to produce, review and distribute sophisticated documents using Power Automate without compromising on the user experience or leaving your model-driven app.
Capture Referrer URL with Dynamics 365 Marketing Forms
How to capture the ‘Referrer URL’ in Dynamics 365 Marketing forms, so you can know exactly what website the lead came from before they landed on your website - nice!
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.
Managing Preferences, Consent and Subscriptions with Dynamics 365 Realtime Marketing
Use Dynamics Marketing subscriptions, with your nicely branded and styled subscription centre form with the amazing new features of Realtime Marketing. Whilst ensuring the Contact Point Consent and Compliance is kept up to date too. Not very ‘exciting’ but also very important!
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!
Improve the Dynamics to SharePoint Integration user experience a little bit more
Enhancing the Dynamics 365 to SharePoint integration user experience by adding a link to the form which opens the relevant SharePoint folder and removing the ugly, confusing GUID from the folder name. Small changes with significant results.
Synchronise SharePoint folder name with row name in Dataverse or Dynamics 365
Updating the name of a record in Dataverse does not update the name of the linked SharePoint folder or Document Location.
Dataverse is confused, the user is confused, and I am severely triggered by this data disarray. With a little bit of Power Automate magic we can automatically synchronise any record name changes with the SharePoint folder and Document Location, because that’s what it SHOULD do!
Upload Documents from Model-driven apps or Dynamics 365 to SharePoint - with metadata!
The Dataverse model-driven\Dynamics 365 app to SharePoint ‘integration’ is not the best. Chucking documents into folders, which are stored in folders, within more folders is not ok.
How to use Custom Pages, Power Automate, SharePoint, Power Apps and Dynamics 365 to help make it better. This post will show you how to:
1) Add information or metadata about the document except the record it relates to (by proxy of its location) during the upload
2) Show users when documents were uploaded without delving into each SharePoint folder
3) Significantly improve the document management user experience in model-driven apps
Adding Dataverse Record Links in HTML Tables in Power Automate
How to add links into HTML tables which are clickable and take you to Dataverse records. Super handy to add links into your daily or weekly summary emails to help users be more productive and enjoy their model-driven app experiences.
Prevent submission of a non-business email address in Dynamics 365 Marketing forms
How to prevent a Dynamics 365 Marketing form with a non-business email address such as gmail.com or yahoo.com. Perfect for B2B customer and users alike.
What’s new? Dynamics 365 Marketing features wave 1 2022
The release notes for Dynamics 365 Wave 1 2022 have arrived! Me and the wonderful Megan V Walker talk through the new proposed features coming to Dynamics 365 Marketing.
A summary of what each feature means, according to my own interpretations/hopes/dreams/despairs. Plus some suggestions on how they could be useful or what excites me most about it.
Sync Dataverse Email Attachments to SharePoint using Power Automate
When you ‘set regarding’ an email in The Dynamics 365 App for Outlook, an email record will be created in Dataverse, linked to the relevant record(s) then any attachments are created as files in Dataverse. Storing files in Dataverse is not often a good idea. Instead, you can automatically upload these files into the relevant SharePoint folder the document is ‘regarding’
Set Dataverse Choices in Power Automate dynamically - without a switch statement!
Setting the value of a Dataverse choice option set or choices multi-select option set column field in Power Automate can be a little tricky. Flow expects either a static choice or the choice ‘Value’ rather than the ‘Label’. Smaller choices work ok with a switch statement but what about when your choice has 10+ choices? Here is a way to avoid cumbersome switch statements to handle larger choice lists.
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.
How to use PCF controls in Model-driven Power Apps and Dynamics 365
PCF components and custom controls let you transform your apps into a much more visually enhanced experience. But how do you use them? I will show your step-by-step how to set up a custom control to directly search the Australian Business Register for a businesses details including ABN number, GST Resgistration, Entity Type and much more. Without leaving your app!
You can use it on any table (custom or out of the box), so long as you have a single line of text column to configure it to.
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.
Document Templates and Rich Text Controls
Document Templates and Rich Text Component Controls are both excellent features of Dynamics 365/Model-Driven Power Apps, but they do not work well together at all. The solution isn’t perfect but by combining some Power Automate flow magic and a simple Word Document setting you can restore some slight harmony between the features.
PS. don’t waste your time trying to add/remove line breaks in Power Automate