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There's a new version of D365 Field Service Mobile, and it is based on Resco version 11.1. In this episode, Scott and Shawn talk about the process of upgrading to the latest version.

Other topics discussed in this episode:

Updates to Universal Resource Scheduling

Crews

Inspections

The release notes for April '19 of Microsoft Business Applications is now available for download. In this episode of CRM Audio (brought to you by D365UG), we review the April '19 release notes.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• General reaction to the release notes
• D365 for Marketing
• D365 for Sales
  • Seamless CPQ integration
  • Sales forecasting
• D365 for Customer Service
  • Case resolution extensibility
  • Flow based SLA's
  • USD support for Chrome
  • Omni-channel Engagement Hub
• Field Service
  • Embedded iot visualizations
  • Device provisioning
  • Self service scheduling via portal
  • Variable resource locations
  • Multiple resource work orders
  • Mixed reality enhancements
• Portal enhancements
  • CDS Portals
  • Power BI embedded in portals
  • External data in portals
  • Portal maintenance messaging
• Bi-directional data synchronization between CDS and F&O
• George's favorite F&O feature

In this episode of the PowerApps Podcast, Those Dynamics Guys (Kyle Hill & Chris Huntingford) discuss CDS, ALM best practices and the new Solution Checker.

Topics discussed in this episode:

Power Apps Control Framework

PowerApps controls in business process flow

Radial knobs

Form simplification

Best practices for form design

Solution checker experience

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Power Apps

What does Chris have in common with Rabbit

Use what you have

Mark Christie, who specialises in Dynamics 365 for Field Service at eBECS, uses Azure DevOps (formerly known as Visual Studio Team Services). He’s from Perth, the ancient capital of Scotland. On 25 January he’ll be celebrating Burns Night where the haggis is introduced to the table with bagpipes. Dynamics 365 Saturday Scotland runs on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 January, and its speakers will also be piped into the room.

In this episode, we discuss the challenges faced by customers who try to build a greenfield Dynamics 365 business application with in-house developers without guidance or direction from an experienced consulting partner or individual. While there is development involved when building complex systems there is a learning curve that must be taken into consideration. Project teams that attempt to learn the Dynamics platform and meet project deadlines tend to get their experience at the customer's expense.

Today on the XrmToolCast, Daryl and Jonas walk through what is involved in creating a plugin for the XrmToolBox.

Topics discussed in this episode:

Technologies you need to know

The VisualStudio XTB Template

PluginBase/PluginControlBase

Async helper methods

Setting up Debug Configuration

XTB interfaces

Daryl's Inability to memorize an e-mail address

Next week on CRM Audio:

• Daryl LaBar and Jonas Rapp tell you how to get started developing for the XrmToolBox
• Stephan Smith talks about the instant developer fallacy
• Neil Benson interviews Mark Christie on Scrum Dynamics (what's haggis?)
• CRM Audio episode 105

Thanks for listening!

In this episode (sponsored by Maplytics by Inogic), hosts Britta Rekstad and Matthew C. Anderson discuss the Power platform from the perspective of people with a background in Dynamics CRM / Dynamics 365.

Discussed on the show

• Makers / Citizen Developers / Admins
• Matt's Maker experience at Microsoft
• Matt's PowerApp-Launching Bookmarklet project on GitHub
• Common Data Service (for Apps and Analytics)
• The Common Data Model
• Definition of PowerApps over time
• Power BI
• Power BI & More 46: Dynamics 365 interactive charts and dashboards
• Microsoft Flow episode and continued development
• Mashup potential of Power platform components
• Listener feedback - don't sell OOB auditing short!

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When you are writing, blogging, podcasting, or some other creative endeavor, one of the most difficult things can be coming up with ideas for content and translating those ideas to a presentation or article. In today's episode, Matthew Anderson and Joel Lindstrom discuss techniques that they use to create content.

Topics discussed:

• Finding ideas from your life experiences
• Overcoming common fears
• Self-imposed deadlines
• Minimum level of proficiency
• Stages of competence
• Being comfortable with what you don't know
• Outlining a topic
• Being authentic

Links:

• Scrivner https://www.literatureandlatte.com

In this episode (brought to you by D365UG), Joel Lindstrom and Ulrik Carlsson discus what you need to know about Interactive charts and dashboards in Dynamics 365 Unified Interface.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• What can you do with interactive dashboards that you can't do with classic UI dashboards?
• Drill down filters
• Dashboard date filters
• Single vs. multiple streams
• Entity level dashboards
• Number of widgets on a dashboard
• Specifying color of option set values in charts
• Advanced chart editing limitations

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