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Modern email template experience in Dynamics 365 – 2020 Release Wave 2


With 2020 Release Wave 2, we can now author the email template from within the Customer Service Hub app. (along with the classic Settings – Templates – Email Templates section)

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Navigate to Service Area – Templates

Clicking on New brings the below window, where we can specify Template Name, Permission Level, Category (entity), and Language.

The classic experience – (it had only template type field – which included value Global and entities)

  • The new Email Template editor brings a rich text experience. ( with the option of working with image inline)

The classic experience –

  • The new Email Template also brings the new modern and familiar toolbar.

legacy experience –

  • The new Insert / Edit dynamics text screen

Classic one –

  • We can also add attachments to the email template.

Now if we create a new email and try to apply the above template, we will be presented with the below message, which asks us to save the record first and then inserts the template, if we want the attachments to be part of it.

After saving the record, we can now insert the email template which also adds the attachments.

Dynamics 365 2020 release wave 2 –https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365-release-plan/2020wave2/

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Send a Power App Push Notification using Flow to open a record in Canvas App | Power Automate


priyeshwagh777's avatarD365 Demystified

Let’s say most of your users are using custom Canvas Power Apps to follow their business tasks and rely on Canvas Apps for their actions inside Dynamics 365.

There could be scenarios where you want to notify them conditionally of important items that need their attention.

Scenario

Let’s say you have a few users whom you want to tell them that an Opportunity was Won. It could be a team or a single User.

Here’s what my scenario is – A PowerApp Notification is sent to designated User(s) using Flow. When an Opportunity is Won

A Power App Notification is received

And when user clicks he Notification, Canvas Power will open and show that record.

But of course, your implementation/applications for this can be limitless!! This is just my example!

Flow

Here’s what the Flow looks like –

  1. I’m triggering the Flow on Update of the Opportunity. You can use…

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Custom entity support for PDF document generation in Dynamics 365 – 2020 Release Wave 2


With 2020 Release wave 1 we had PDF generation capability added to Lead, Contact, Opportunity, Quote, Order and Invoice entity.

https://nishantrana.me/2020/02/13/save-and-email-pdf-options-added-to-dynamics-365-sales-2020-release-wave-1-plan/

This has been extended to the custom entities with new capabilities added in 2020 Release Wave 2

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In Sales Hub, navigate to App Settings – Productivity Tools – Convert to PDF and select Manage


We can Search / Select the entities to enable it.


Let us enable it for the Contact entity

We can see the “Export to PDF” command added after enabling the Convert to PDF option in the contact entity.

Clicking on it we are presented with below options if we do not have any active document template available for that entity.

Let us enable PDF generation on the Account entity (as it has the document template available out of the box) and try the same.

After enabling it for Account entity, clicking on Export to PDF, gives us option to  preview the PDF document based on the template selected

Download option  will download a copy of the pdf.

The Email option will open the compose email window with the PDF attached.

Save to Dynamics will save it in the timelines as note’s attachment for that record.

This definitely was one of the most requested feature and thanks to Microsoft for adding it in the new release.

Dynamics 365 2020 release wave 2 –https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365-release-plan/2020wave2/

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AI suggestions for similar knowledge articles and cases in Dynamics 365 – 2020 Release Wave 2


The AI suggested knowledge articles and similar cases capabilities have been added in the Customer Service workspace to help the agents in faster resolution of the cases.

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Open Customer Service Hub, navigate to Settings in Analytics and Insights section.

Click on Manage to configure the Suggestions.

Below Case Title is the field that is defined for Case summary and Description for the Case details as default.

The other fields that can be specified are

Similarly, we can enable knowledge article suggestions, for which Article title and Article content fields need to be specified.

The other fields that can be specified are

Save the configuration.

The settings can take up to 24 hours for processing the model and to complete the first-time setup.

To view the Smart Assist Pane where we will find all the suggestions –

Open the Customer Service workspace app

https://nishantrana.me/2020/08/13/new-customer-service-workspace-app-preview-in-dynamics-365-2020-release-wave-2/

In the Customer Service Agent Dashboard, use Shift + Mouse action to open the case record.

We can see the Smart assist pane opened to the right of the record.

  • Sample knowledge article components

  • Sample similar cases component

Get all the details below

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/dynamics365/customer-service/csw-view-ai-suggested-cases-knowledge-articles

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Email file attachment enhancements in Dynamics 365 – 2020 Release wave 2


Let us look at the changes that have been introduced in 2020 Release wave 2, with regards to the file attachments in Email.

Enable early access to 2020 release wave 2

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Clicking on New Attachment button will,

open Manage Attachment dialog box in 2020 Release wave 1, wherein we need to click on Choose file to open the open file dialog box.

In 2020 Release wave 2, it will open the open file dialog box directly.

For the attached file, we have only the Delete option available in 2020 Release wave 1.

In 2020 Release wave 2, we have Preview, Download along with Delete option.

Clicking on Preview will open the attachment preview dialog box as shown below.

For attachment of type pdf, we get the below message

We do not see the preview option available for word document or text file.

Dynamics 365 2020 release wave 2 – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365-release-plan/2020wave2/

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