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Add multiple Opportunity Products at once in Dynamics 365 Sales | Enhanced Experience [Preview]

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Very easy tweak but this will save loads of your time. One of the most important asks by Salespeople is perhaps this – “Add multiple Products on Opportunity at once!“

Here’s how you can do this –

Classic Experience

In current/classic experience, if you open Opportunity Lines and go on to add a Product as below –

It’ll either open in a New form.

This isn’t intuitive. You definitely need better experience.

Enhanced Experience

In System Settings, under Sales, you’ll need to enable the Adding Products to Yes. This will enable the enhanced experience.

  1. Now, when you click on Add Products in the Opportunity’s Product Line Items tab, you’ll see a Quick Create Form like form on which you can Add Multiple Products in one go.


    And then go to + Add products


  2. Now, a Quick Create form will appear on which you can select multiple products

  3. Now, when you click on any + sign in blue, you can directly enter what quantity you want to add.
  4. Also, if you go to the Selected section which indicated how many unique products you’ve added, you’ll be able to remove the added Products in case you don’t want them


    and then Delete the same if needed.

  5. Now, let’s say I have this finally and when I click on Add to Opportunity, they get added as Opportunity Lines


    And they appear as below

    Hope this helps!!

Here are some more D365 For Sales articles you might want to check out –

  1. Kanban view in Dynamics 365 Sales | 2020 Wave 1 Early Access Feature
  2. Territories enabled for OOB Hierarchical relationship in Sales Hub
  3. Create your own Insight Cards with Power Automate in Sales Insights
  4. Discount Settings for D365 Sales Line Items – Line Items or Per Unit?
  5. Talking Points in D365 AI For Sales
  6. Import lookup referencing records together in Dynamics 365 CRM | [Linking related entity data during Excel Import]
  7. Contextual Email communication in D365 CE Wave 2
  8. Customize Opportunity Close dialog box in D365 CE v9 Unified Interface – Wave 2 update
  9. Create & Send PDFs from Word Templates for Quotes in D365 CE Wave 2 Updates
  10. Save generated PDFs to SharePoint directly – 2020 Wave 1 | Early Access Feature

Thanks!

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Time/Expense Entry Rejection comments in D365 PSA v3

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Let’s say in your PSA implementation, you are the Project Approver and you often face the challenges to rejecting time entries so that the resources could just correct it and re-submit. (Or any reason, for that matter)

Do you manually go and tell them that they need to re-submit? Let’s make this easier. This post applied for both, Time and Expense entries in PSA v3.

Where are the Rejection comments stored?

As an Approver, you have Resources submitting their Time Entries and you see them under Time Entries For Approval view in Approvals entity, ready to be Accepted/Rejected
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And optionally, you can enter comments specifying why you rejected the Time Entry.
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But where is this data stored?

It’s actually stored as a Note on the Time Entry record itself! Note that the Entry Status of the Time Entry now says ‘Returned‘
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Let the Resource know

You could just create a workflow to send an email to (Even Microsoft Flow, if you are comfortable with it)
A simple workflow to send out a notification will be useful to let the Resource (Owner of the Time Entry) know that the Time Entry was rejected and they need to take action.
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On create of Note, Check if the Regarding (Time Entry) contains data and the Entry Status == Returned

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And send it to the Owner of the Time Entry specifying what details should go out. Add a link to the Time Entry record, maybe.

And they can click the link back to the Time Entry itself.
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Hope this use-case proves useful in your implementation! 🙂

Happy 365ing!

Qualify Lead in D365 CE: Select which entity records should be created

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Wave 2019 Updates brought some really sought-after features. Another one which I would like to bring up is the Lead Qualification experience.

I’ve written this post when I enabled the Early Opt-in of Wave 2 Oct 2019 Updates. To enable Early Opt-in, please refer this post – Early Opt-in for October 2019 Wave 2 Updates

This is set to release for the Oct 2019 Updates.

Default Behavior

So when you Qualify Lead by default – Account, Contact and Opportunity records are created.
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Notice that by default, the created Account and Contact are always auto-filled.
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Lead Qualify Experience in System Settings

By default, D365 will let you create all three – Account, Contact and Opportunity records when you Qualify a Lead.
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When you select No, you’ll be asked which all entities should be created when you Qualify a Lead.
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Lead Qualification for selected entities

No, when you click on Qualify button, you’ll be treated with this Dialog box where you can choose what records should be created.

I’ll select only Opportunity this time
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And only Opportunity will be created and notice that the Contact and Account are blank this time.
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Hope this is useful!

Thanks.

Related Blog on one of Wave 2 2019 Update: Customize Opportunity Close dialog box in D365 CE v9 Unified Interface – Wave 2 update

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Customize Opportunity Close dialog box in D365 CE v9 Unified Interface – Wave 2 update

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Oct 2019 Wave 2 update got one of the most asked feature. Being able to customize the Opportunity Close Dialog box.

Assuming, you have enabled 2019 October Wave 2 update enabled for your Organization or you’re reading this post Oct 2019 with Wave 2 Updates already applied to your organization.

For Early Access of Oct 2019 Wave 2 Updates, follow my post here – Early Opt-in for October 2019 Wave 2 Updates

Please note that this feature is still not generally available and is not recommended for Production use yet.

Non-Customizable Opportunity Close Dialog

Up until now, you had this familiar Opportunity Close dialog where all you could do is just fill in the details and Close the Opportunity.

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And you couldn’t add your own fields or modify it in anyway.

Please note that this feature is only available for the Unified Interface on Orgs enabled for 2019 Wave 2 Updates (Early opt-in or General availability)

Enable Customizable Opportunity Close Form

System Settings

Please note that this is a feature Admins will need to activate for the Organization and won’t be automatically updated once the Wave 2 updates are applied.

Under Sales tab in System Settings, enable Customize close opportunity form
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Custom Fields

Example: Let’s say I have this field called as Internal Reason, I’ll add it on the Opportunity close entity (which users will use this on the Opportunity Close form when closing an Opportunity)
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And I’ll simply add it to the Opportunity Close Quick Create form
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Opportunity Close Quick Create Form

Once you do this, a Quick Create form you defined will open up instead of the traditional dialog box and you can include your custom fields on the same as well
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Happy 365ing always! Hope this helps.

Delete Async Plugin Logs if plugin succeeds, save D365 storage space

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Let’s see how we can efficiently manage D365 storage without bloating the storage with data that you might not need.

In my opinion, we don’t really need to know that the background process was successful or not, we typically care for what failed.

So, from an Asynchronous plugin standpoint, the logs in D365 is registered in the System Jobs and they create a ton of System Events if you are Importing data in D365 and your Async process is on the create of such records.

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Check your Async plugin step

  1. Now, you can preserve this storage space by choosing to Delete the Async plugin logs.
  2. In the screenshot below, you can see an option to ‘Delete AsyncOperation is StatusCode = Successful’
    deletelog

In this case, the System Jobs for the will not be created, thus, saving you valuable storage space if your plugin is run frequently.

Hope this helps.

Use Learning Path for your D365 v9.x Organization – Part 3 | Guided Tasks

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After 2 posts to trying to summarize Learning Paths, here we are to Guided Tasks which conclude this series. We will see D365’s early adopters can get acquainted with processes in your organization and getting them to know the system.

To check the other 2 posts – Please follow the below posts

  1. Setup – Use Learning Path for your D365 v9.x Organization – Part 1 | Setup
  2. Sidebar –Use Learning Path for your D365 v9.x Organization – Part 2 | Sidebar

Configuring Guided Tasks

  1. Assuming you are already in Learning Path > Content Library. Select Guided Task.
    guidedTask
  2. Fill out the properties of the Guided Task like the name and how you want it to behave.
    guidedTaskProperties
  3. One you save, you get a Flow Editor where you can add 4 different types of Guided Task modal.
    flowEditor
  4. So, these 4 types of modals are available. Here’s what each of them do –
    1. Step with Next Button – Simple instruction in Text or Video and a Next Button
    2. Step with User action – Will make you click the button/action it is pinned to. And only then move forward.
    3. User Action with Next Button – This is a combination of A and B above. You can either select the action or skip to next step.
    4. Learning Step – It is like a tip and comes with a Button that can open another Learning Path Published item. Like, Sidebar in my case.
      stepTypes
  5. When you drag either of the above onto the screen, the D365 screen is highlighted with areas where you can drop it and it gets pinned to that item.
    skeleton
  6. On each of the types of modals, you get to either enter Text or add a Video.
    contentTypes
  7. For Learning Step modal, you get to also configure what will open when user clicks Learn More.
    learnMoreEditor
  8. In my case, I’ve opened the existing Sidebar from Part 2 of the blog series.
    sideBar

Finally, my track looks like this –

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Previewing and Publishing

  1. Once you are done editing, Save your changes and Check In your changes.
    confirmCheckin
  2. Once you proceed, you’ll be asked in the same way as Sidebar to specify which all environments you want to publish this to.
    envSelect
  3. On publishing, you’ll see this notification.
    published

Seeing Guided Tasks Work

    1. Step with Next Button.
      stepWithNextButton
    2. Step with User Action (Notice that it doesn’t have a Next button but is asking you to click on the Gear Icon)
      userAction
    3. User Action with Next button, either of which will take you to the next step.
      nextUserButton
    4. Learning Step (Clicking on Learn More will open the Sidebar on the right hand side)
      learningStep
    5. Sidebar showed up on clicking Learn More from Step 4 above.
      LearnMoreSidebar

Hereby, I conclude Learning Task. I tried to keep it as short as possible. But then, lots of screenshots.

To summarize, you can read previous blogs in this series
1. Setup – Use Learning Path for your D365 v9.x Organization – Part 1 | Setup
2. Sidebar – Use Learning Path for your D365 v9.x Organization – Part 2 | Sidebar

Hope this gets you through Learning Path quickly! 🙂