Category: ADX Portals

Using the Content Access Level for KB Articles in Customer Self-Service Portal


Suppose we have already configured Portal, created contacts and associated KB article to the Portal.

Now the scenario we want to implement is we want a particular user to have access to all the KB article and another user to only specific KB Articles.

For this, we will make use of Content Access Level concept of the portals.

Content access level can be assigned to KB Article and can also be assigned to the Contact Users.

There are 3 content access levels OOB, we can also create our own content access levels.

We have 2 users in our portal, one user we have assigned Default content access level and to another user, we have assigned Premium Users content access level.

Now let us associate content access level to the KB Article.

If we try to edit the KB Article in the Web, we will be presented with the following information

Let us open the Customer Service Hub

The other challenge we will face here is the default and the only form being displayed inside the Customer Service Hub for the KB Article doesn’t include the section or sub-grid for Content Access Level.

To add the Portal Interactive Experience Form, open the Customer Service Hub app in app designer (Settings à My Apps) and add the form, followed by Publish.

Now let us update our KB Article and associate content access levels.

Now the most important step, enabling the Content Access Levels for the website.

Navigate to Portals à Site Settings and set Value field as True.

With all the required configuration done, let us search for the keyword booking in the portal for both the users.

  • User 1 (on the left)à Default Users CAL and User 2 à Premium Users CAL
  • Booking Travel KB Article à Premium Users CAL.

The article is accessible only to User 2.

Now search for Instruction Manuals and Drivers KB Article which has both Default and Premium Users CAL.

As expected the article is accessible to both the users

More articles on Portals

https://nishantrana.me/2017/03/07/portal-blog-post-list/

Hope it helps..

Hide “Sign in with an external account” from Dynamics 365 Portal


To hide the Sign in with an external account section from the Sign In and Register page of the portal.

Set the following site settings value to false à

Followed by Restart of the portal.

To add any additional JavaScript or HTML, for e.g. we wanted to disable the Email text box on the Register page,

Go to Portals à Content Snippets and create a new code snippet record

The output:-

code

The helpful post –

http://benitezhere.blogspot.ae/2018/01/hiding-sign-in-with-external-account.html

http://arpitmscrmhunt.blogspot.ae/2017/12/customise-registration-page-in-crm.html

Hope it helps..

Unknown Error or Resource not found for the segment ‘msdyn_FpsAction’ in Schedule Board in Field Service in Dynamics 365.


Hi,

Recently we configured the portal trial instance and installed Partner Field Service portal in it .

However, while trying to access Field Service à Schedule Board, we were getting the below errors

Eventually it turned out that the issue was caused because of the certain processes being in draft state.

The post which helped in fixing this issue

https://glinks.co.uk/2017/01/06/field-services-schedule-board-unknown-error/

Hope it helps..

Partner Field Service Portal in Dynamics 365.


Dynamics 365 comes with Partner Field Service portal which helps Partners manage work order, service request, assets, invoices, opportunities etc. from within the portal.

Go to Administrator Center, select Portal and click on Manage.

Select Manage Dynamics 365 Instance

Click on Update Dynamics 365 Instance

Select Partner as Audience and Partner Field Service as the portal to be deployed

Once installed this is how Partner Portal looks like

Below are the different menu options that comes OOB.

Partner Program

Opportunities

Customers

Field Service

Below are the Entity Forms associated to the Partner Portal Web site created in CRM.

Below are the Entity Lists associated to the Partner Portal Web site created in CRM.

Around 121 Entity Permission records are added by the Partner Portal

Web Roles specific to Partner Portal.

Below are some of the permission for the Partner Admin web role.

Once the portal is setup next step would be to Become a Partner. Click on Begin Here.

Update the profile and click on submit.

Within CRM, the admin user needs to run the Approve Partner Application workflow on the corresponding portal contact user record.

After workflow succeeds we can assign appropriate web roles to the portal contact user.

The portal user can create customer contacts record

The portal user can raise Service Requests from within the portal.

Can manage Work Orders.

Can manage Opportunities.

The portal has the Dashboard that shows the details around the opportunity and the cases.

Hope it helps..

How to – Edit Primary Navigation in Portal in Dynamics 365


For updating the Navigation, login to the portal with the user having Administrator web role.

Hover over the Navigation and select Edit

This opens up the dialog box, here we can edit or insert a new navigation link. To add new navigation link click on “+”

We can either specify any existing page within portal or can point to any external URL and can also show up image + text or image only.

This adds the new navigation link

Similarly, we can add new child links or move a link as child link which then appears as drop down. Here we have moved the new Search Home link inside Support by dragging.

The updated navigation looks like below

Hope it helps..

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Manage Dynamics 365 Portal Instance


Suppose we have Community Portal configured in our Dynamics 365 Instance.

Now we would like to have Custom Portal instead of Community Portal associated to our instance.

To configure this, we need go to Admin Centre à Select Portal and Click on Manage

Then select Manage Dynamic 365 CRM Instance and then Update Dynamics 365 Instance

From there we can select the Portal Audience and corresponding Portal to be deployed.

This will install the corresponding portal solution to our CRM Instance.

Now our portal URL will show up the Custom Portal instead of Community Portal.

To switch back to community portal, we can select Portal Details and Update Portal Binding to point it to website we want it to bind to.

Suppose we have Employee self-service portal deployed to our instance and we would like to update binding to it.

Below we select Employee self-service as the web site record and click on Update.

Once update is done, opening the Base Portal URL will open up Employee self-service portal instead of Custom Portal now.

Hope it helps..