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Embed Power BI Dashboards in Dynamics 365 Human Resources

Posted on by Nicu Aleman
After 2020 Wave 1 releases of Dynamics 365 Human Resources, Microsoft allow the embedding of 3rd party apps. They also promised to allow the embedding of Power BI and, in the future, the change of the already existing Power BI Analytics.With Wave 2 recently announced, I tested the possibility of adding Power BI dashboards with HR data or from other sources.Watch this video to see how easy it is and contact me if you need my help.
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Export data from Attract and Onboard

Posted on by Nicu Aleman
As announced in Retiring Dynamics 365 Talent: Attract and Dynamics 365 Talent: Onboard Apps, Microsoft is going to retire Attract and Onboard effective February 1st, 2020.Export data from AttractYou can export your data without restricting access to your environment. You might want to do this for testing purposes or to understand our data structure. When you're ready to migrate, restrict access to your Attract environment using the instructions after this procedure. Be sure to export your da...
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New Prices and Licensing Changes in Dynamics 365 Human Resources

Posted on by Nicu Aleman
Microsoft announced yesterday (17 Dec. 2019) the new licensing and product fees for Dynamics 365 Human Resources (aka CoreHR). Starting February 1st 2020, we will have the following changes: Attract and Onboard will no longer be part of the offering. Licensing changes: Talent ($40) is transitioning to Human Resources ($120/user/month) with new capabilities (5 users minimum need to be purchased) New Human Resources Self Service offer will lower the total cost of ownership - replacing t...
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Sad news or a window of opportunity? Goodbye Attract and Onboarding!

Posted on by Nicu Aleman
Microsoft has announced today the retirement of Attract and Onboarding, two important modules of Dynamics 365 for Talent, in the beginning of February 2020. By the way, the product will be re-branded to Dynamics 365 Human Resources.Read the whole announcement here:https://community.dynamics.com/365/talent/b/dynamics365fortalent/posts/retiring-dynamics-365-talent-attract-and-onboard-appsThe main reason for this change is the intention to promote LinkedIn Talent Hub, which, of course, ...
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How to solve the Workflows opening error

Posted on by Nicu Aleman
In the last two weeks I was constantly getting an error when trying to open any workflow in Talent. When you go to Personnel Management -> Links -> Human resources workflows you will get the list with existing workflows. Clicking on the WF ID will open the editor. After logging in with username and password, the error I was getting was pretty annoying and it wasn't easy find on the internet.After flushing my DNS, trying on many computers and on different browsers, I finally contact...
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Finally here: Copying CoreHR database to Sandbox

Posted on by Nicu Aleman
Many times (during the last 2 years and after 5 Dynamics 365 for Talent implementations) I had no convincing answer to the following question: how do you make a copy  - easy and completely -  of the production CoreHR database? Because Dynamics 365 for Talent is a Hybrid Application (this is my own name, not coming from Microsoft), we have 3 products that are Power Apps native (Attract, Offer Management and Onboard) and 1 product with an Finance and Operations database  - CoreHR. (if you want...
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How to Copy the Production Environment to Sandbox in Dynamics 365 for Talent

Posted on by Nicu Aleman
In my previous article I was showing you how to copy the Production environment to Sandbox, from LCS, only for CoreHR. But the architecture of Talent is complex. You can see the architecture below:Therefore, there are 4 applications which are sending and receiving data from Power Apps: Attract, Offer Management, Onboard and CoreHR. The last one is still having the database on a Finance and Operations database.DISCLAIMER 1: The following steps represent my own view on how to copy Prod...
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Offer Management integration with DocuSign

Posted on by Nicu Aleman
In March 2019, Microsoft announced the integration of Dynamics 365 for Talent (the Attract/Offer Management module) with DocuSign, to automate the candidates offers signatures on different documents in the sent offer package.More information about the announcement can be found here: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/bdm/2019/03/11/dynamics-365-for-talent-now-supports-docusign-for-offer-signatures/.But how does this actually look?Step 1. Make sure you have purchased the Com...
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Having trouble accessing your Talent instance from your LAN?

Posted on by Nicu Aleman
I recently started the implementation of a Dynamics 365 for Talent project for a customer with many security restrictions and the project team was complaining that they don't have access to the the public link: https://signin.hr.talent.dynamics.com. They were getting the "wonderful" error This site cannot be reached...Browsing the internet and Microsoft resources, I stumbled upon this blog Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. Static IP Addresses? which is explaining what IP ranges ar...
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Extend Talent by using PowerApps and Microsoft Flow – Example scenarios

Posted on by Nicu Aleman
Microsoft has just updated the docs.microsoft.com page with the real-life scenarios and the solutions that can be downloaded and used to extend Talent. The key to this (and my personal advice to the Dynamics 365 for Talent Consultants) is: start learning CDS and PowerApps. That is the way!Or, if you already know Dynamics CRM Configuration and Customization, use those skills.The full article is here, published by Microsoft: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/t...
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