Tag: Microsoft Dynamics 365

Getting started with Microsoft Bot Framework


To get started with Bot Framework, download the visual studio template for Bot Application from the following location

http://aka.ms/bf-bc-vstemplate

Extract it and put the content at the following location. (Visual Studio 2017 in my case)

C:\Users\<<ComputerName>>\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#

Open Visual Studio and select Bot Application template to create a new project

This is how the basic structure of the bot application looks like

The most important part here being the MessageController class.

The class has the Post method which handles the message sent by the user/client termed as Activity. The Post method handles the Activity of type Message.

Below is the list of different type of Activities

DeleteUserData is when the client\user requests for Deletion of all the user data, ConversationUpdate is when a new member is added or removed from the conversation, Typing is when user is typing the message etc.

Now to test this sample application, we need to first download the Bot Emulator.

https://emulator.botframework.com/

Now run the bot application.

And next start the emulator

Enter the URL and click on Connect. We will leave App ID and Password as blank as we are testing it locally.

Just type in the message and we’d get the response back.

Details section shows the JSON message which could be useful for debugging and testing purpose.

Apart from sending message we can simulate other Activity Type from within the emulator

The next post in this series

Hope it helps..

Configuring Live Assist (Preview) for Dynamics 365.


Let us see how we can configure Live Assist step by step.

First, go to Applications tab of the Dynamics 365 Administration Center.

Select Live Assist for Dynamics 365 and click on Manage.

Click on Accept to give permission to the app.

Select the Dynamics 365 Instance and provide your email id, accept the terms and conditions and click on Submit.

This configures the Live Assist on the specified Dynamics 365 Instance and also sends the email to the email id specified.

Once the configuration is done, we can see the new Live Assist section added in our Settings area.

There we can click on Admin URL of Live Assist for further configuration.

Clicking on it opens the Admin Center.

Click on Confirm and Authorize.

The Dashboard of the admin center.

The Get Started page.

Code Snippet that we can use to enable Live Assist in web site.

Live Assist adds a new panel on the right inside CRM.

To test it we can make use of Demo Site provided along with Live Assist.

The agent within CRM can click on Conversation Icon and “Grab a chat” to start conversation.

Now suppose we want to configure our CRM Portal to use it. For this we need to copy the code snippet provided earlier. Go to the Header web template of our Web Site and paste the JavaScript code to our Header’s source code.

This enables Live Assist in the portal.

Communication between the CRM user and the Portal user.

The helpful links and video

https://neilparkhurst.com/2017/04/09/cafex-live-assist-my-initial-install-with-usd/

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/lystavlen/2017/03/16/live-assist-for-dynamics-365-first-look/

Hope it helps..

Setting Regarding of a record in Automatic Record Creation and Update Rules in Dynamics 365


Hi,

While implementing a scenario i.e. automatic case creation on phone call create using Automatic Record Creation and Updating Rules, we found that whenever we were setting the Regarding Object in the Phone Call activity, the case record was not getting created.

Create Case Rule Item –

Creating a Phone Call record using Case as Regarding object.

Workflow ran but the case record was not created.

Then we created phone call activity record without setting the regarding object. This time workflow ran and created the case record.

Basically, the workflow creates the case record and updates the Regarding Object in the Phone call record with this newly created case record.

However, if we check the Official documentation

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/crm-customer-center/set-up-rules-to-automatically-create-or-update-records-in-dynamics-365-customer-service.aspx#bkmk_RuleAndQueues

we have this mentioned

However, in our case we created a phone call record with case as regarding object and had case as the entity selected in the Create Record step, in this case also the Action were not executed.

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..

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Configure Product Recommendations using Recommendations API in Dynamics 365


For configuring Product Recommendations first we need to enable the preview –

Go to Settings – Administration – System Settings – Previews

Select Yes and Click on OK.

As a next step, we need to create Cognitive Services for Recommendation API and connect it to CRM.

Go to Portal

https://portal.azure.com

Search and select Cognitive Services Accounts

Click on Add

Select Recommendation API and provide other details and click on Create.

From Overview, note down the Endpoint which will be used to configure the connection in CRM.

From Keys, copy value of the Key which will be used for configuring connection to CRM.

In CRM, go to Settings – Administration and click on Azure Machine Learning Recommendation Service Configuration.

Specify the value for the URL and Key we had noted down earlier, save the record and click on Test Connection to test the connection.

On Successful connection, we’d see Success message for Last Connection Status. Click on Activate to enable the connection.

Now we need to define\build the model for recommendations. For this go to Settings – Product Catalog and click on Product Recommendations.

We’d see a recommendation model with default values

The model will have Basked Data Entities already defined. We can edit\add new\ delete these existing configuration records for Basked Data Entities. Basked Data Entities recommendations are based on which products appear together.

For e.g. in below Opportunity record we can see 27 inch and 12 inch monitor opportunity products appearing together. It will look for all such line items records.

Similarly we have recommendation entities records configured which we can update.

Once done with the configuration, we need to click on Build Model Version to build the model.

It will create a corresponding model version record.

We can check its progress by refreshing it.

Here the model that we had defined has successfully build and it took around 6 minutes.

We can click on the Model Version to open the record to get the further details.

Next step would be to check the recommendations. For this click on Test Recommendations.

Pop up opens wherein we can select the Products and model version and click on Show Result to see what are the product recommendations.

Once satisfied with the test result, click on Activate to enable the recommendations.

We might get the below message in case we do not have good enough data in our system.

To see it in action, open an existing opportunity record , go to product sub grid and select a product and select Suggest Products.

A dialog box opens up that shows the Cross-Sell products and other details.

Get all the details here

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/56b35229-72f8-46ca-bebf-eae023f633c2.aspx

Hope it helps..