Dynamics CRM Quick Tip: Creating Custom Activity Feed Posts
The Posts or Activity Wall on the social pane of a Dynamics CRM record is an easy way to keep up on important events at a glance without having to leave the main page. You might see information like an opportunity for an account of yours was won or one of your customers just opened a new service request. While this type of information is important it may not be important enough to warrant creating a workflow which sends an email, after all let’s face it everyone is probably already getting to much email as it is. To cut down on some of the noise in your inbox, items that are not critical can be posted to the activity feeds area where you can consume the data at you convenience. Out of the box there are a number of pre-configure events that can be enabled. To find these look under Settings -> Post Rule Configurations. You’ll find quite a few events related to activities, opportunities and cases. In order for the system to generate a post on one of these events you’ll...