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200+ Interview Questions on Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement CRM to sure shot crack Interviews

Are you looking for answers of the below 200+ Dynamics 365 questions? Please click the below button to follow the instructions to get the Answer document in your email. Click the button below to follow the steps to get the answer document. GET ANSWERS NOW https://youtu.be/dDVT4JqYkNw What you know about Azure and explain a bit…
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Auto numbering in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

Auto numbering feature has always been there in the Dynamics CRM application settings, but it was restricted to a few entities such as contracts, cases, articles, quotes, and so on. If we click Settings -> Administration -> Auto-Numbering option, we can see the auto numbering configuration panel with existing entities as below: Previously we could configure auto-numbering…
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Word Template in Dynamics 365

Dynamics 365 provides a very powerful way of handling Word/ Excel Templates. Some repeated Document preparation can be automated by using Document Templates feature of Dynamics 365. Lets say your organization sends some customized template letters such as below screenshot (The screenshot is a random picture has no relation with the article. just showing to…
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Dynamics 365 Themes Walkthrough

Dynamics 365 is a most powerful Business application which provides many business focused apps to achieve day-to-day business tasks. One of the feature is to change the look and feel of Dynamics 365 User Interface screen. Using Dynamics 365 Theme we can do following things: Using custom Logo to remove default Dynamics 365 Logo Change…
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Sample Model Driven APP in Dynamics 365 in Details – Book Store Management

This article explains how to create a Model Driven Power App to manage a Book Store extensively. In my previous article I have explained how to create UCI app you can read here. This article is a continuation part of the last article. Scenario : We will create a Model-Driven App to Manage a Book…
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Create a sample UCI App in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

Unified Client Interface (UCI) is a most advanced responsive UI design enhancements of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement. It ensures a better and faster response in all Mobile applications and also in large devices. UCI Apps are much faster then Web Client Apps in Dynamics 365. So in this post we will learn how to…
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Convert a Phone Call to a Case and Resolve in Dynamics 365 CE

Lets there is a scenario where customers are calling to customer representative and the customer represtative has to store this information as a service case in Dynamics 365 customer engagement application. Now lets see how this can be done. First of all we have to navigate Sales App and then select the record where the…
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Import Contacts From Excel Sheet to Dynamics 365 CE Contact Entity in Bulk

Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement provides a very flexible way to import data into the system using robust Data Import in-built tool and it automatically maps the columns from excel sheets to entity fields. Lets say we have an excel sheet with below data. Now we want to import to our Dynamics 365 CE Contact entity.…
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Goal Management in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Explained

Goal management is a very important process of every organization to achieve a targeted aim. Lets say an organization set a goal to increase its revenue by $2 Million in next quarter. So to achieve this organization assign goals to each sales person and the goals get evaluated at the end of the next quarter…
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Editable Grids in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

For Bulk Field Inline updates Dynamics 365 provides a very flexible way called as “Editable Grid Control”. Lets say, An User wants to update two fields (Email and Address) of 20 Leads record then how to achieve the task? User opening every record to update those fields for all 20 records is very time consuming…
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Multi-select Optionset DataType in Dynamics 365 Customer Engegement

Previously we have worked on Optionsets which allows us to select an item from a list at one time. But Dynamics 365 introduces a new data type called as “Multi-select Optionset” which allows us to select multiple items at one time. Here we will do some practical sessions to undersnad how this Multi-select optionset works…
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Project Service Automation in Dynamics 365 CE

The Project Service Automation (PSA) module helps organizations efficiently track, manage, and deliver project-based services, from the initial sale all the way to invoicing. Project managers rely on software applications to track and manage the delivery of projects. Typically, the first step after finalizing the project charter is to build the work breakdown structure. The…
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Field Service Module in Dynamics 365 CE

Field Service Module is the basic need for Customer Site Visit Management system. in this module businesses deal with below processes. The Dynamics 365 Field Service business application helps organizations deliver onsite service to customer locations. The application combines workflow automation, scheduling, and mobility to set mobile workers up for success when they’re onsite with customers fixing issues.…
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Customer Services Module Life Cycle in Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE

Customer Service module is one of the crucial module in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Business Application. Watch the video below for more practical or scroll the article to read more. The Customer Service Module deals with below entities. Case Service Activities and Calender SLAs Queues knowledge base Entitlements Every organization must have a sort of…
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Marketing Module Life Cycle in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

Every organization spend a lot money in the marketing of their business products and services. SO streamlining of the Marketing department and process is must. Dynamics 365 CE provides a very flexible way of handling all Marketing issues of all types of Businesses by providing built-in entities to store marketing data and robust insight for…
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How to Read Dynamics 365 CRM Data in Javascript using Web API with FetchXML

In the below code snippet we can read account records whose name starts with “M” and show all names in alert.

Simple, yet Powerful : Python generic property auto assignment

Folks transitioning from java or any object-oriented language to python might struggling or spending their substantial time when assigning the method argument variables to their class level variable every-time they write reusable classes and functions definitions. For example, Imagine the above function, what if I have to long list of arguments and in multiple functions…
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Tips & Tricks – Spark Streaming and Amazon S3

As we all know, the Amazon S3 is an amazing storage to deal with persisting the hot and cold data in this big-data era. It has 99.99% uptime which has been claimed by amazon. You can follow the documentation from amazon for more details. When we all agreeing upon the S3 storage is easiest, resilient…
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Gradle Build – Copying custom file and replace with tockenized string

Objective The blog is to copy a file from the project path to build path after the project build completes Example Use-case : In my case, I have a Dockerfile in the project root directory. I wanted to copy the file to the build directory once project build completes. Project structure : smartechie-pro | —– src…
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JenkinsFile – the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty

Error : java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty This is the problem I have faced when running build or test command on any java project. The following is the error I got, + make test ./gradlew test Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.3-all.zip Exception in thread “main” javax.net.ssl.SSLException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected error: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty…
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Working with Postgres SQL in macOS

Install / upgrade Postgresql smartechie-macos :~ $ brew postgresql Get installation details smartechie-macos :~ $ brew info postgres Result postgresql: stable 10.4 (bottled), HEAD Object-relational database system https://www.postgresql.org/ Conflicts with: postgres-xc (because postgresql and postgres-xc install the same binaries.) /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.6.3 (3,260 files, 36.6MB) Poured from bottle on 2017-06-05 at 20:47:39 /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/10.4 (3,389 files, 39.2MB) *…
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Solved : Failed to replace a bad datanode on the existing pipeline due to no more good datanodes being available to try

Caused by: java.io.IOException: Failed to replace a bad datanode on the existing pipeline due to no more good datanodes being available to try. (Nodes: current=[DatanodeInfoWithStorage[172.27.10.191:50010,DS-51d68378-35de-4c70-b27e-7a98a53919cc,DISK], DatanodeInfoWithStorage[172.27.10.223:50010,DS-f172c682-713d-4a8f-b8af-69198ddc6756,DISK]], original=[DatanodeInfoWithStorage[172.27.10.191:50010,DS-51d68378-35de-4c70-b27e-7a98a53919cc,DISK], DatanodeInfoWithStorage[172.27.10.223:50010,DS-f172c682-713d-4a8f-b8af-69198ddc6756,DISK]]). The current failed datanode replacement policy is DEFAULT, and a client may configure this via ‘dfs.client.block.write.replace-datanode-on-failure.policy’ in its configuration. at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.findNewDatanode(DFSOutputStream.java:925) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.addDatanode2ExistingPipeline(DFSOutputStream.java:988) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.setupPipelineForAppendOrRecovery(DFSOutputStream.java:1156) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.run(DFSOutputStream.java:454)…
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Unable to connect to Hbase shell

Problem : smartechies.mac $ hbase shell ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (0 for 1) method_added at file:/usr/local/Cellar/hbase/1.2.6/libexec/lib/jruby-complete-1.6.8.jar!/builtin/javasupport/core_ext/object.rb:10 method_added at file:/usr/local/Cellar/hbase/1.2.6/libexec/lib/jruby-complete-1.6.8.jar!/builtin/javasupport/core_ext/object.rb:129 Pattern at file:/usr/local/Cellar/hbase/1.2.6/libexec/lib/jruby-complete-1.6.8.jar!/builtin/java/java.util.regex.rb:2 (root) at file:/usr/local/Cellar/hbase/1.2.6/libexec/lib/jruby-complete-1.6.8.jar!/builtin/java/java.util.regex.rb:1 require at org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1062 (root) at file:/usr/local/Cellar/hbase/1.2.6/libexec/lib/jruby-complete-1.6.8.jar!/builtin/java/java.util.regex.rb:42 (root) at /usr/local/Cellar/hbase/1.2.6/libexec/bin/../bin/hirb.rb:38 Solution :  Point the JAVA_HOME variable to correct value in  conf/hbase-env.sh Example : smartechies.mac $ cat ~/.profile | grep JAVA_HOME export…
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Create Superuser in HUE

[ec2-user@ip-123-45-67-890 ~]$ ls -ltr /usr/lib/hue/build/env/bin/hue -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 523 Sep 22 22:09 /usr/lib/hue/build/env/bin/hue [ec2-user@ip-123-45-67-890 ~]$ sudo /usr/lib/hue/build/env/bin/hue createsuperuser Username (leave blank to use ‘root’): sudhir Email address: mail2sudhir.online@gmail.com Password: Password (again): Superuser created successfully. [ec2-user@ip-123-45-67-890 ~]$

Solved : error “/usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory

Error : “/usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory Solution : ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node   Followup issue : Error: EACCES: permission denied, open ‘/home/ubuntu/.config/configstore/bower-github.json’ Solved (click here for solution)

Solved: permission denied, open ‘/home/ubuntu/.config/configstore/bower-github.json’ in ubuntu

Error : Error: EACCES: permission denied, open ‘/home/ubuntu/.config/configstore/bower-github.json’ You don’t have access to this file. at Error (native) at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:549:18) at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:397:15) at Object.create.all.get (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/lib/node_modules/configstore/index.js:35:26) at Object.Configstore (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/lib/node_modules/configstore/index.js:28:44) at readCachedConfig (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/lib/config.js:19:23) at defaultConfig (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/lib/config.js:11:12) at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/bower/lib/index.js:16:32) at Module._compile (module.js:410:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)   Solution : sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP ~/.npm sudo chown…
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