Unified Service Desk (USD) for Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a framework that allows you to quickly create call center applications. This is the sixth module in a training course I’ve created to help beginners understand the basics of USD.
In a previous module we learnt how to create a session, in this module we will build on this concept by opening an associated view of cases.
Whilst in your account session you may want to open a view of associated cases, opportunities or even a custom entity. These views can exist on the main CRM but often it is benefit to create navigation that will show these views in the left panel in USD. By the end of this module your account session will look like this;
Notice that we have added the navigation button “CASES” and that selecting this option will open the associated view as shown.
During the video I created an action, the details for this are;
navItemName=incident Id=[[account.Id]] tabSet=areaService type=1
And assuming you repeat the change shown for contacts then you’d use these details;
navItemName=incident Id=[[contact.Id]] tabSet=areaService type=2
Alternatively, you can create one action that will work in both circumstances making use of $Context. Which would look like this;
navItemName=[[$Context.LogicalName]] Id=[[$Context.Id]] tabSet=areaService type=[[$Context.etc]]
In the next module we will continue to build on this application by looking at how to create window navigation rules to govern how tabs will load within the session. J
Enjoyed module 6? Try module 7.
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Hello Neil, first I want to thank the information provided to run the USD configurations and second, I hope you can excuse my language, I speak in Spanish.
I have a question, when I try to configure the session name for the contacts, it was not possible to appear the name in the tab that opens in the left tab, do you have any recommendations for this?
Beforehand thank you very much.
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Hi Maximiliano
Thanks for reading my blog.
Your English is better than my Spanish! 🙂
If you are having a problem only with the contact session that check that you have set the entity and display name correctly in your Session Lines. (And that the session line has a type of Session Name.)
If you are getting general problems that Session names aren’t correct or tabs aren’t correctly opening in sessions then look at your IE settings. In particular check your protected mode. As described this this post.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/usd/2016/01/26/ie-process-mode-gives-httpevent-popup/
Hopefully this helps
Neil.
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I did not expect a response so fast, so, thank you very much Neil!
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