MB-400: Power Apps + Dynamics 365 Developer – Preparation Guide

So, I was able to clear one more certification last week.After completing MB-400 exam last week, I would like to share my experience on how I prepared for this exam, and whats the impact of revised course update on the certification. I will talk about what to study and why hands-on is important. Do you know, all these new Roles-Based Certificates has 2 years of validity as per the Microsoft…

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Sales accelerator (Preview): Create and manage sequences

Sequences are part of Sales accelerator and they help sales managers enforce best practices by introducing a set of consecutive activities for sellers to follow during the course of their day. A manager can connect sequences to leads and opportunities that appear in a seller's work queue, to help sellers prioritize activities to focus on selling, be more productive, and better align to business processes. Every organization has its selling…

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Sales accelerator (Preview): Enable and configure the Sales accelerator

Well, what is the objective of Sales teams in an organisation? They must focus on high-velocity selling. The sellers, who are part of these sales teams, should spend their valuable time identifying the best customer in their customer list, navigating across multiple sources, to identify who they need to engage with, when, and how. So, what is the Sales accelerator? To overcome this challenge, the new Sales accelerator module in…

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Preview: Run canvas and model-driven apps on Power Apps mobile app

Power Apps is the mobile app which was originally built to access Canvas Apps in Andriod and iOS. Right now, using both canvas and model-driven apps together on a mobile device is a painful experience since it requires two different mobile apps to be installed on your device. We need to use Dynamics 365 apps to access model-driven apps on mobile. With the new Power Apps mobile app, we can…

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Share a model-driven app with Power Apps

Microsoft CRM/Dynamics 365/Model-Driven Apps have come a long way in the last few years. Now all Canvas apps and Model-Driven apps are consolidated and available to create, edit, play and share from one place, which is make.powerapps.com. In the past, we need to customize the Sitemap of a Dynamics 365 to ensure people with selective roles should be able to see and access only relevant records. There was no way…

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Canvas Apps: Add Custom Logging using Trace Function

In the last post, Log telemetry for your Canvas Apps using Azure Application Insights, we discuss this interesting new feature to capture the telemetry of your Canvas App in Azure Application Insights and use its feature to monitor, analyse and improve your App for better customer experience.In this post, we will check out how we can add Custom Logging to our Canvas App, and therefore, use it to gather information…

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Log telemetry for your Canvas Apps using Azure Application Insights

Microsoft has introduced a new instrumentation feature to allow makers to collect detailed telemetry for their Canvas apps. In case you would like to know how many people are using your Canvas app, where they are accessing it from, what screens are most visited, and the devices or browsers that are most popular, well now we can get all this insight using Azure Application Insights. The benefit of using Azure…

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MB-220: Dynamics 365 for Marketing – Preparation Guide

My idea of pursuing certification is to learn new things and keep myself up to date with the technology. I use certification as a checkpoint and it gives me the motivation to learn. After completing MB-220 exam last weekend, I thought to share my experience on how I prepared for this exam and whats the impact of revised course update on the certification. I will talk about what to study…

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Enable creating and editing data in forms displayed as a modal dialog

One of the general requests we all hear from our users is that they would prefer to use a Dialog window to work on related records instead keep navigating from one back and forth across forms.Wells the good news is here. In the upcoming 2020 release of power platform, we will be able to open a main form as a model dialog directly from another main form. This will greatly…

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Dynamics 365 Sales: Customize forecast models using Org Chart or Territory

Dynamics 365 2020 release wave 1 has added many exciting features in the Sales Forecast model. They have introduced 2 templates based on Org chart and Territory to design forecast on either or both model. They might be introducing Product-based forecast template soon. Before we start, this is gonna be a long ride, but in my defence, I couldn't have written it any shorter. First, let's check out the official…

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