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Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Marketing Templates

Hi Everyone,

As you may aware that in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Marketing have a capability to create number of different template according to the business requirements.

Let’s see in action:

Each time you create a new email message, customer journey, marketing page, or marketing form, you start by choosing a template. Dynamics 365 includes sample templates to get you started, but you’ll probably want to build your own to match your organization’s requirements and graphical identity. Creating a template is nearly the same as when you create an actual message, page, journey, or form. ​

In Navigation bar Marketing > Templates and then choose an entity you want to create a template for. ​

Select and Email Template Window


Here are some notes and best practices to consider when working with templates:​

Content templates often establish a standard visual identity and branding for your communications. Design content templates in collaboration with your branding team and reserve content areas for the marketer to enter content for each specific marketing activity.​

For customer journey templates, set up the basic pipeline and include descriptive names for each tile.  You’ll leave many of the other tile settings unspecified.​

Customer journey templates can include default segments and suppression lists. For repetitive and similar marketing flows (like newsletters or product introductions), templates help maintain consistency across organizations​.

Templates remain in Dynamics 365, so you don’t need to go live with them.​

Additionally, Activity Template option is an available option in Dynamics 365 for Marketing. An activity template is used when creating an activity. The template defines which type of activity it is, who it should be assigned to, and other details. You can choose an existing template or create a new one from here, but you can only assign or create templates that have the same Activity Type as the tile.
Only active Activity Templates will be available in the lookup.​

I hope this helps.

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Marketing new pricing and features for October 2018

Hi Everyone,

Its good news for those who are looking for price change of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Marketing.

Its been announced  on 1st October 2018 that there will be New languages, regions, and pricing for Dynamics 365 for Marketing.

Please refer to the msdn blog:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/crm/2018/10/01/new-languages-regions-and-pricing-for-dynamics-365-for-marketing/

But still in my view is that customers who are using the Microsoft Dynamics 365 for customer engagement application can not have all the Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Marketing features, so customers looking to utilize the Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Marketing features need to purchase the Dynamics 365 for Marketing separately.

I hope this helps.

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Enable Hybrid Unified Interface in Dynamics 365

Hi Everyone,

Today i am going to share my view on Unified Interface and how to enable the hybrid unified interface.

As Dynamics 365 Community know about the new Unified Interface in Dynamics 365 from version 8.2 on wards.

Unified Interface is the new way of client interface that is designed to provide a consistent experience across devices like mobile, tablets and on web of any screen size or device.

Unified Interface with Dynamics 365  core functionalities of sales and customer service have moved to the Unified interface client.

Dashboard and charts:
We can access all the system and user dashboards from within your unified interface apps.
The interactive dashboards are available for all entities in dynamics 365.

Enhanced user experiences:
Timeline control – The timeline view helps you collaborate with your team by tracking customer communication in a record on a single page in an easy to read view. You can see everything from posts and voice attachments, to emails and notes. It provides a quick way to see the entire communication thread.

Business process enhancement – The business process flow has been improved by the docking mechanism. You can dock the business process stage on your screen to help you stay focused on the task at hand in your business process flow. This is especially useful when the stage of the process has complex steps to complete.

Reference panel – Use the reference panel for apps built on Unified Interface like Dynamics 365 for Customer Service. The reference panel is a great way to get work done without clicking away from the screen you are on. You can look up other things like knowledge base articles within the context of the record you are viewing.

Navigation – The new menu options let you swiftly navigate the different apps in the system. It provides quick access to recently viewed records and pinned favorites.

Reflow – The app also scales by reflowing the components on the screen. The responsive design adapts to your environment based on screen size, so the more available space that you have the more information can be displayed.

Focused experience with mobile driven apps.

Rich controls – Is a Metadata driven experiences, all controls are built o n the control framework that is extensible and provides a uniform experience across clients. The app display reflows to the viewport size the user is working.

Enable the hybrid experience:

Some features are not enabled in Unified Interface but can be enabled for display as legacy dialogs in UI through hybrid experience.

> Advanced Find
> Bulk edit
> Merge records
> Record sharing

These can be enabled through setting in the System settings:
Go to Settings > Administration > System Settings.
> Select the General tab.
> Set Enable embedding of certain legacy dialogs in Unified Interface

After enable the hybrid experience command will appear in Unified Interface command bar.

We can select to share account with another user or team

If you disable the hybrid experience then you will not see the commands on the command bar.

I hope this helps:

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Processes

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Processes:

From within PowerApps (Dynamics 365) you can leverage five different process types for specific needs and use cases. Each of the process types contain help to support a very specific type need that a customer may have.

Business Process Flows: Represent business processes that can potentially span multiple Dynamics 365 entities.

For example: An organizations sales process may start with the lead entity, and conclude with creating an Order in the application.

Task Flows: Assist in the automation of potentially repetitive tasks that users may execute in the application. These tasks may potentially need to touch multiple entities in the application.
For Example: After a sales meeting a user can run a Task Flow that updates the Appointment, and the Contact record at the same time.

Workflows: Automations that can run in the background or as part of a user invoked action and provide real-time feedback to end users.

For Example: After a CSR completes and closes a Case for a customer, a Workflow automatically send an e-mail to the customer that contains a link to a survey they can complete.
Actions: Allow transactional custom API calls such as “Escalate Case” or “Sent PotHole Report”. They can be executed by Workflow Actions.

Microsoft Flow: Automation tool that provides the ability to define workflows that can span multiple Line of Business Applications.

For Example: Microsoft Flow could monitor a Document Library in SharePoint. After a Document that contains specific information is added to the Library, Microsoft Flow could create a record automatically in Dynamics 365.

How they Fit into Customizing Dynamics 365

As you are customizing Dynamics 365, you encounter specific situations one or more of the previously mentioned process may be beneficial to your organization. Although each specific situation is often unique, there are specific situations where each type of process could be leveraged.

I hope this helps.

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Manual N:N Relationship


Hi Everyone,
Today i am going to explain how N:N relationship works in Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Lets gets started.
A manual many-to-many (N:N) relationship is not a true type of relationship, and will not appear in the N:N relationships node for an entity. It is a convenient way to describe how you can use a custom entity that has two lookup fields for the 1:N relationships to the two entities that you want to connect. This is known as a manual many-to-many (N:N) relationship because you create a custom entity instead of having the system create and maintain a hidden intersect entity.
The main benefit of creating a many-to-many (N:N) relationship in this way is that you can add custom fields to the intersect entity. In a native many-to-many (N:N) relationship, the intersect entity is hidden and custom fields cannot be added.
When you decide on the type of many-to-many (N:N) relationship to create, you have to know whether the organization must record additional information about the intersect entity.

In example, the native many-to-many relationship provided the required functionality that let multiple Contacts attend an Event, and a Contact attend multiple Events. However, because the intersect entity cannot be customized, additional details of a Contact’s attendance cannot be recorded, such as the following:

·         Contact’s registration status
·         User who recorded the registration information
·         When the contact registered to attend the event
·         If the contact has any specific requirements, such as accessibility or dietary requirements
If you have to store this additional information, you must create a manual many-to-many relationship. For example, in this scenario, create a custom entity that is named “Booking,” and then add fields to the Booking entity to record the additional data that is required. Then, from the Booking entity, create the following two 1:N relationships:
·         From Booking to Contact
·         From Booking to Event
By using the Booking entity as an intersect entity, the organization can track registration information that is related to both Events and Contacts, and still let multiple Contacts attend an Event, and a Contact attend multiple Events. When you create two 1:N relationships from the same entity in this manner, this can be described as a manual N:N relationship.
I hope this helps.
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