The Case / Service management entity in Dynamics CRM and Dynamics 365 offers management of your customer service management, incidents or support tickets. It’s a great way to manage your service requests or cases and manage them using technology to remove some administrative time, never miss an SLA and drive results.
The case entity provides a great wealth of functionality,
Many organisations utilize the Microsoft Dynamics CRM case management entity for help desks where a customer raises an issue in reference to a service or product they have procured from you, however you can use cases in any scenario where a request is being made to your business where you need to track against SLAs and manage successful outcomes for your clients.
The case entity in Microsoft Dynamics CRM is highly configurable and so it can be tailored to your precise organizational needs and it has a helpful process bar that can be used to ensure that your teams know the next steps to take.
Cases can be assigned to CRM users or teams and cases can be added to queues to provide efficient case management against your available resource.
What’s available in the Dynamics CRM case management entity?
You will be able to add cases with ease, complete required fields and look up to customers or other contacts as your business needs. The owner of the case defaults to the person who created the case but this again is configurable. Once a case is active users can assign the case to other users or a team or add it to a queue for the right people to work on that case for your client.
Another option is to use routing rules. If you choose to have these routing rules in place the case will be set using
To resolve a case in Dynamics CRM and Dynamics 365 you can do from the case form or from the
Once a case is closed in Dynamics is can be reopened by reactivating the case.
Routing Cases in Dynamics 365 and Dynamics CRM
Routing a case is where certain criteria
It is important to note that this case/service management functionality is available in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM / 365 product if the CRM Online Spring ’14 has been applied, or if the CRM Online 2015 Update is installed. For on-premises CRM sites this feature is available only if the CRM 2013 Service Pack 1 is installed, or if the site is updated to CRM 2015.
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