HR solutions for a Microsoft world
This is probably the single most requested feature in Attract – and now it’s live! How to set up your emails so that they come from a nominated organisation account instead of the default Microsoft ‘Dynamics 365 for Talent’ accounts. Disclaimer – I’ve been testing this this week and have found a couple of bugs … Read more
This is the final post in the series, but my plan is to keep it up to date with issues that me or my team encountered while setting up email notifications. It’s going to be a bit like an FAQ list, so when it gets a bit long, using the page search function might come … Read more
So in theory now, your emails should be generating, and sitting ready to go. This is because the batch jobs that are needed in Talent to run workflows and generate notifications are on by default. The batch job used to send the emails however, needs to be activated. First of all, check that your emails … Read more
We’re getting closer to actually sending some emails out now… At this stage you need to go back to your workflow, tell it which email template to use, and also give that email some content. When we entered ‘%message%’ in the HTML file, we were telling Talent to use the message data from the workflow … Read more
This is a bit that I struggled with when I was first learning it – because it feels like you have to set up your template twice. Once in the system admin part of Core HR, and once when you’re editing your workflow. After a while you just accept it as it is and stop … Read more
There are many good blog posts out there already that walk you through how to set up email parameters in Finance and Operations, and fortunately for us, in Talent they work in more or less the same way. I was advised a while ago to use the Exchange setup, which is really simple to do. … Read more
There’s not much point in doing your leave management in Talent, if you still have to ping an email to your manager to tell them you’ve submitted a leave request before they know to go in and approve it. Now, as I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a techie. I’m a HR user who started pressing … Read more
I’ve been working with a company lately who were at risk of falling foul of GDPR, because the partner they were previously working with hadn’t properly secured their workers’ address and contact info during the data migration phase. We fixed it for them, but it was fiddly, and cost a few quid in hours spent … Read more