The Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2023 Release Wave 1 is here, and it brings new innovations that will provide significant capabilities to transform your business. While this release wave of the year offers hundreds of new features and enhancements across all of their applications, I'm excited on what's coming for Customer Insights and Pro Development.
Do you leverage data from multiple applications or services? If you haven't already found a way to integrate the data between them, you should check out Microsoft Cloud Flows, which are part of Power Automate and part of the overall Power Platform.
What are Cloud Flows?
Cloud Flows allow power users to build workflows that integrate a diverse set of apps and services, including Dynamics 365, SharePoint, SQL Server, Act!, Twitter and many more! Each workflow can have one trigger, such as a timer or an incoming email or tweet, and one or many actions, such as creating a Lead in your application of choice and sending a text message to a user.
It's official: as of October 12, 2022, the Microsoft Power Portal is now Microsoft Power Pages. Pages has been in preview since at least May 2022, but it was expected to replace Portal at some point in late 2022. Now that Pages has been released and is officially replacing Portal, Microsoft is working hard to update their documentation around this incredible Power Platform component.
Power Automate provides some incredibly powerful capabilities around business process automation, especially within the context of Dynamics 365 and the Dataverse. From automating simple tasks such as automatically generating subfolders whenever a parent folder is created to tasks requiring complex conditional logic, Power Automate flows can handle the brunt of your automated business processes and so much more.
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If you're like most D365 organizations, you use background workflows. Depending on the nature of your business, you likely have custom plugins embedded in many of those background workflows. While Microsoft hasn't officially announced the deprecation of background workflows, they are recommending that you transition to using MS Flows.
Microsoft Power Automate provides rich and powerful tools, connectors, and logic to automate many common business processes within Dynamics 365 and the Dataverse as a whole. With flow functionality slowly replacing legacy Dynamics 365 workflows, Power Platform administrators and customizers now more than ever have the ability to build automations up and across to other products and solutions using various data connectors.
In a previous blog, we covered how you can populate a Word document template using Power Automate. In addition to populating plain text fields in a doc, you can also Use Power Automate and JSON to populate Document Tables using the Repeating Section Content Control.
As you may already know, Microsoft pushes out two upgrades to Dynamics 365 Online each year. The upgrades, known as Wave 1 and Wave 2, are pushed out to Dynamics customers in different regions around the globe on dates set by Microsoft. Dynamics 2022 Wave 2 is finally here.
For any organization, reports are an integral part to helping your team’s function whether it's to pass information to your clientele or to discover realities.
There are many reporting tools for Dynamics 365. Some of the most common tools are:
The built-in Report Wizard in Dynamics 365
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and the Dynamics 365 Report Authoring Extension
Flow
Power BI
Which tool should you use? Well, that entirely depends on your use case.
