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

Learning Path an intuitive feature as compared to Customized Help. Customized Help will take you to an entirely different section whereas Learning Path will guide you through the application when you use the system. This is a multi-part blog series which will walk-through the setup of Learning Path and use of Guided Task and Sidebar in Learning Path.

Also, I’ve you’ve already setup Learning Path on your org, you can read my post on using Sidebars in Learning Path – Use Learning Path Learning Path for your D365 v9.x Organization – Part 2 | Sidebar

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

Learning Path is available on Customer Engagement and the organization must be on D365 December 2016 Update or later.

Let’s look at how you can enable this for your Organization

Opt-In for Learning Path

First step is to go to Settings > Administration > System Settings. Under General Tab, find ‘Enable Learning Path’ and ‘Enable Learning Path Authoring’. Make sure ‘Use custom Help for customizable entities’ is set to No.
When you chose to enable Authoring, a confirmation will be asked for your consent according to Microsoft policies.

Learning Path Authoring Group

When you’ve opted in for Learning Path Authoring, and in your navigation you go to Training > Content Library under Learning Path.
But you’ll be treated with this message below because you’ve not yet been added to the Group in Office 365.

Add to Learning Path Authoring Group in O365

In your Office 365 Admin Center, navigate to Groups as shown below
And you should add the Sys Admin user to the Learning Path Author groups as shown below –

Sync Roles in Content Library

When you’ve enabled Learning Path successfully, you will need to check which Security Roles are enabled in Learning Path designer. The content is shown to users based on the precedence of their security roles.
1. Navigate to Content Library, you’ll find Configuration button on top as shown below –
2. Under configuration, you’ll see Sync Role button which will sync security roles with Customer Engagement security roles. You can set your precedence of Security Roles before you Sync Roles.
3. Click Yes to confirm, it takes a few minutes while it’s happening in the back end.
4. Upon completion, you’ll see this message and you know you’re done.
5. Once everything is setup, you’ll be ready to use Guided Task and Sidebar in Learning Path which I’l be covering in further blog posts in this series.

Here’s Part 2 – Use Learning Path Learning Path for your D365 v9.x Organization – Part 2 | Sidebar

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

BPF Process Stage Name not populating on records in D365 v9 [Deprecated] and workaround.

December 24, 2018September 26, 2020 priyeshwagh777 Dynamics 365, dynamics 365 administration, dynamics 365 customization business process flow, d365 deprecation, dynamics 365 v9

At times, users are unaware of the deprecation announced for D365 v9 version earlier in 2018 or simply, they’re not aware whether to look for deprecation announcements. One of the most common instances I’ve come across lately are when people complaining about the Process Stage Name entity not updating post the v9 update.

Deprecated Feature – Process

So when you try to add these columns in you entities’ views, you’ll see that StageID (Process Stage) is now shown as Deprecated.

Alternative/Workaround

But, it is important that you also have a workaround at hand to keep the data up to date. Here’s a quick workaround to get the Stage Name.

Create a custom Single Line of Text field on the entity that you need the Stage name on. In this case, Opportunity entity.
Create a Real-time Workflow on the BPF entity itself. In this case, it was the Opportunity Sales Process BPF’s entity called as ‘Opportunity Sales Process’.
The workflow will be triggered when the Process is Applied and then Active Stage field is updated on the BPF.
And in the Step, it will only update the Opportunity’s custom field to the Active Stage.
That way, you can have the Stage Name data in your custom field and use that instead.

Hope this helps! 🙂

Accessing multiple occurrences of a field in Business Process Flow using JS in D365 CRM

November 17, 2018 priyeshwagh777 Dynamics 365 business process flow, dynamics 365 customization, dynamics 365 javascript, dynamics 365 v9

While working with BPF fields using JavaScript, there can be instances where you might want to keep the field locked in a certain stage but unlocked in another stage. And using Xrm.Page.getControl(controlName) or for v9 – getFormContext.getControl(controlName) should differentiate between the 2 fields?

Let’s see what we need to do here.

Scenario

Let’s say I want the users to enter Customer Need data in Develop Stage.
But, just view what data is present in Propose Stage shown below, not modify it. (I’ve just renamed the field to Summarize Customer Need instead)

JavaScript Usage to access the Control

Now, since the Summarize Customer Need field is the second time, using getFormContext.getControl(“header_process_customerneed”) will be fetched to disable the first field only i.e. Customer Need in Develop stage.
To access Summarize Customer Need, you need to append “_1” to the control name for the second occurrence. And _2 and so on for further occurrences.
Here’s the sample code which I used to access Summarize Customer Need to access the second occurrence of the field and use setDisabled(true) to lock it –
3. And that way, you’ll be able to access Summarize Customer Need control and do your desired operation (like even make it hidden or visible depending on your scenario) –

Hope this helps!

D365 Quick Tip: Higher version of D365 For Outlook won’t work older D365 Online

November 13, 2018November 13, 2018 priyeshwagh777 Dynamics 365 For Outlook Dynamics 365 For Outlook, dynamics 365 for outlook v9, dynamics 365 v9, outlook integration

Most clients are now upgrading their D365 Online from 8.2 version to the newer 9.0 / 9.1 versions. Now, I know D365 App For Outlook is the way to go. However, some clients want to stick their classic flow of Set Regarding from the Outlook client (even though D365 App For Outlook seamlessly provide all of this)

If you’re planning that you start upgrading users’ D365 For Outlook version to v9 so that you can set them up already even before D365 goes to v9, then this won’t work.

Here’s the link to download the version 9 of the Dynamics 365 For Outlook – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56972