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Case Study 1 - Contoso Ltd Background information Contoso Ltd. has started a new division that provides janitorial services to businesses. The sales teams for this division are using a dedicated insta

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Set up journeys to support sales-related processes using Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys

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Case Study 1 - Contoso Ltd Background information Contoso Ltd. has started a new division that provides janitorial services to businesses. The sales teams for this division are using a dedicated instance of Dynamics 365 Sales. Contoso Ltd.'s sellers are becoming accustomed to Copilot in Sales and Sales Insights features. They have identified several desired enhancements. System configuration The base currency for all opportunities in the system is US dollars (USD). The administrator has NOT enabled installed premium Sales Insights features. All users have Premium licenses. Contoso Ltd. uses Exchange Online for email. Only three default insights cards are turned on: 1. Close date coming soon 2. Meeting today 3. Upcoming meeting The system administrator has set the following days before notifying me value for the Close date coming soon card to 21 days. Contoso Ltd. has also just set up Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys for marketing automation. No segments or customer journeys have been defined yet. Dynamics 365 Sales and Customer Insights - Journeys both share the same instance of Microsoft Dataverse. Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales settings The following screenshots show the configured fields for opportunity settings summaries and recent changes in Copilot. Contoso Ltd. Personnel Business development managers Contoso Ltd. has 30 business development managers (BDMs) across its sales teams. Each BDM is responsible for selling janitorial services to new and existing clients. All BDMs are assigned the sales manager security role in Dynamics 365 Sales. Any BDM can own an opportunity, even if a different BDM owns the client account record. Any other BDMs assigned to work on the opportunity will be included in the opportunity record's sales team. Opportunity records owned by a BDM will never include any additional client stakeholders other than the named contact for the opportunity. The BDMs have been told to document all client communications in Dynamics 365, but they frequently exchange emails with client contacts through Microsoft Exchange WITHOUT tracking them in Dynamics 365. Digital sales team Contoso Ltd. has a digital sales team that comprises 10 junior sales resources who focus on lead qualification and conversion to opportunities. Members of this team are assigned a single custom security role named Digital seller that is a copy of the standard Salesperson role. View audit history and view audit summary permissions are disabled. The team currently receives leads from an online form on Contoso Ltd.'s website. Many online lead submissions end up being duplicates, and the team manually reconciles the duplicates by comparing last name, email address, and phone number for all submitted leads. Clients Client tiers Clients are grouped into tiers based on annual revenue as calculated in a system outside Dynamics 365 Sales. Clients receive different levels of ongoing service and support based on their tier assignment. Annual revenue values for accounts and corresponding tier values are written to Dynamics 365 through a nightly batch process. Client tier values are only updated when they change, and tier value will always be blank for accounts with no calculated annual revenue. The tier structure is: Tier A -- annual revenue greater than or equal to $10,000,000 USD Tier B -- annual revenue greater than $5,000,000 USD and less than $10,000,000 USD Tier C -- annual revenue greater than $0 USD and less than or equal to $5,000,000 USD The tier label is stored in a custom text field named Client tier (contoso_clienttier) that contains only a single letter or is blank. Northwind Traders account There are three BDMs who frequently work together on large opportunities. BDM1 is the account owner for Northwind Traders, a multinational client. - BDM1 owns all Northwind Traders opportunities with estimated revenue greater than or equal to $1,000,000. BMD2 and BDM3 are assisting BDM1 with several opportunities for Northwind Traders in different cities. - BDM3 owns all other Northwind Traders opportunities. BDM3 is NOT a sales team member for any of the opportunities BDM1 owns. - BDM2 is a sales team member for all Northwind Traders opportunities. Client Contact1 is the primary contact for the Northwind Traders' account. There are two other client contacts with whom the Northwind account team regularly engages - Client Contact2 and Client Contact3. BDM1 and Northwind Traders account BDM1 has been on vacation for two weeks. During vacation, BDM1 did NOT log into Dynamics 365, and BDM2 made the following updates to several open Northwind Traders opportunities. BMD2 also scheduled an internal meeting with BMD1 for the day they return to discuss a request from the primary contact for the account. The meeting has the "London office" opportunity as its regarding value. Desired enhancements The global sales lead requests the following enhancements: 1. A "Welcome" email should be sent to the primary contact for an account when the account first enters any client tier. This email should only be sent to the primary contact once. 2. Account owners should receive immediate notifications in the assistant in Dynamics 365 Sales when accounts change tiers. The notifications should include the account name and current tier. 3. A "Getting started" email should be sent to the main contact associated with an opportunity when the opportunity status is set to "Won." 1. The email should include a link to a custom onboarding form where the contact can supply information required to start the janitorial services for a given location. 2. If the contact does NOT click any links in the email, a follow-up email should be sent. 4. All emails between BDMs and client contacts should be available for relationship analytics KPIs. Emails sent by other users outside of Dynamics 365 should NOT be included in the KPIs. The digital sales team lead requests the following enhancements: 1. The ability for team members to use Copilot to summarize changes to lead records. 2. Replace the current online form used by their team to capture new leads. The new form should automatically handle duplicates using the rules the team currently applies manually. Drag and Drop Question You need to configure a new Customer Insights - Journeys form to satisfy the digital sales team lead's request. Which five required actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the five appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area. Arrange the five actions in the correct order. Answer:

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The answer choices (source items) were not included in the question as transcribed - both arrays are empty []. This is a common issue when drag-and-drop questions are converted to text. I'll explain the correct conceptual sequence based on the scenario requirements.


What the Question is Really Asking

The digital sales team lead wants to:

  • Replace the existing online web form for lead capture
  • Automatically deduplicate leads using: Last Name + Email Address + Phone Number

The tool is Customer Insights - Journeys (CIJ) forms, which can capture leads and handle deduplication natively.


The Correct 5-Step Sequence (Conceptual)

Step 1 - Create a new Marketing Form in Customer Insights - Journeys

Why first: You must have a form object to configure. Navigate to Customer Insights - Journeys > Channels > Forms > New.

Step 2 - Set the target table/entity to Lead

Why second: Before adding fields or rules, you must define what record type the form creates. Selecting "Lead" ensures submissions create Lead records in Dataverse - matching the team's existing workflow.

Step 3 - Add the required fields (Last Name, Email Address, Phone Number)

Why third: These three fields serve a dual purpose - they are both data capture fields and the matching keys for duplicate detection. You can't configure matching rules on fields that don't exist on the form.

Step 4 - Configure the Duplicate Detection matching strategy using Last Name + Email + Phone

Why fourth: This is the core automation requirement. In CIJ form settings, you set a duplicate check matching rule specifying which field combinations identify a duplicate. This replaces the manual comparison the team currently does. The order matters - fields must already be on the form (Step 3) before they can be selected as matching keys.

Step 5 - Publish (Go Live) the form and replace the existing website form

Why last: A CIJ form must be published/go-live before it generates an embeddable URL or script. Only after publishing can you replace the current website form with the new one.


Common Mistakes / Misconceptions

MistakeWhy It's Wrong
Configuring duplicate detection before adding fieldsYou can only match on fields present in the form
Using a Dynamics 365 Sales web resource form instead of a CIJ formCIJ forms have built-in duplicate logic; Sales forms do not
Publishing before setting duplicate rulesOnce live, the form captures submissions without deduplication until corrected
Targeting Contact instead of LeadThe team works with leads, not contacts - wrong entity breaks the workflow
Expecting CIJ duplicate detection to work with unlisted fieldsOnly fields explicitly added to the form can serve as matching criteria

Why CIJ, Not Sales?

The scenario states CIJ was just set up and shares the same Dataverse instance as Dynamics 365 Sales. CIJ marketing forms support native duplicate detection strategies, making them the correct tool to replace the manual deduplication process - without custom code.

Topics

#marketing forms#duplicate detection#lead capture#Customer Insights Journeys form

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