Improve agent productivity with timeline enhancements

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Users, automatically - Aug 1, 2022 Oct 3, 2022

Business value

The timeline control provides agents with an easy and immersive experience for viewing a customer’s history across interactions. This experience helps agents deliver more personalized customer service in an efficient and effective manner.

Feature details

Enhancements to the Dynamics 365 timeline control include the following:

  • An optimized and modernized timeline for usability and at-a-glance understandability when working with customers.
  • The ability to display the regarding record on activities.
  • An improved title description for the conversation records, and the ability to view inline chat transcripts and voice recordings.
  • The ability to show only the current email message with the option to expand the full thread.
  • Simplified visual experience for auto-post messages.
  • A preview of attachments for supported file types.
  • The ability for a user to remember filters.
  • The ability to add attachments to posts and replies.

The following features need to be manually enabled by admins:

  • Notes that work like other activities and roll up on contact, account, and opportunity form timelines.

See also

Use timeline (docs)