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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Applications (MB2-868) Certification Guide

By : Danny Varghese
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Applications (MB2-868) Certification Guide

By: Danny Varghese

Overview of this book

Managing any relationship can be difficult. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 enables an organization to manage their marketing, sales, and service efforts for a customer, and give users a 360 degree view of the customer."Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Applications (MB2-868) Certification Guide" will assist individuals in passing the certification exam by reviewing each topic covered by the exam in depth, providing questions to test your knowledge at the end of each chapter, and finally by providing a 75 question practice exam including answers.You'll start with an introduction to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 along with an overview of the exam, benefits of certification, and helpful exam taking tips.The following chapters take a deeper look into the CRM application itself covering each of the key modules: marketing, sales, service, and service scheduling. At the end of the book, there is a 75 question sample certification exam.This book will help you attain the MB2-868 certification, making you more marketable.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Applications (MB2-868) Certification Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.packtpub.com
Preface
Answers to Sample Certification Exam Questions
Index

Reporting on service activities


Out of the box, Dynamics CRM provides a service activity volume report. The service activity volume report can be run from the view of reports, or from the view of cases, on the Cases ribbon bar in the Data group, by clicking on the Run Report button, and then selecting the report. It's important to note that no out of the box charts are available. However charts and other reports can be created, as noted in Chapter 3, Managing Marketing Automation Applications – Marketing Lists and Campaigns.

Service activity volume report

The following screenshot illustrates the service activity volume report. This report displays Subject, Scheduled Start, Scheduled End, Duration, Service Name, and Status Reason of the service activities in a table format for the last twelve months. The filter criteria for this report can be changed. For example, if you want to display service activities for the last six months instead of twelve.

The other option is for the report to display...