Hi,
Initially I thought that the Marketing Emails just stand for templates for regular email messages sent out from the CRM. Where I got lost is when it seems that Customer Journey does send an email but it does not create a corresponding Email Message record on the Contact in CRM. Am I right or just cannot find any trace of the CJ email when looking from the contact level?
Hi Anna,
I would like to add supplement based on Antonios' answer.
Even if Dynamics won't create a corresponding Email Message record on the Contact, but we could set our Dynamics mailbox to "Reply-to address" field of marketing email record.
The description of the field is here:
Recipient's reply will be forwarded to the reply-to address.
In my test, I set the address to my CRM mailbox.
Corresponding tracked email records:
Activities in contacts' timeline:
In a word, the method above will convert marketing email to activity email record,
but we need to receive a reply email from recipient.
Regards,
Clofly
HI Anna,
Did you check Insights tab on the Contact form (Insights/Email Interactions)? Marketing App uses a different concept, it does not use traditional CRM activity records, so it is a bit different than you expected, it is not just a template creating tool. It has a separate set of own corresponding activities (interactions) like emails, form submissions, etc.
Check this just to see the Insights part https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/marketing/insights
If you need to create regular CRM activities you could do that with a workflow step in a customer journey, and of course you can use both (regular CRM activities and Marketing activities) in segments to filter out specific contacts. The difference if I remember correctly stems from the fact that Marketing activities are stored in Azure actually and then synced back to the Marketing App.
BR,
Antonio
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