Link and track an email or appointment to a specific row in your app

Use Set Regarding in Dynamics 365 App for Outlook to associate an email message or appointment to a specific row in your app. When you link an email message or appointment to a specific account, opportunity, or case row and the system populates the regarding lookup for the email or appointment and tracks it in your app.

  1. Open an email or appointment that you want to associate to a row in your app.

  2. Select Dynamics 365 to open the Dynamics 365 pane.

    Open App for Outlook pane.

  3. In the Set Regarding textbox, type in your search text and select the row to associate the email or appointment with.

    Set Regarding.

    Note

    For information on how to use search to look for a row, see Use the lookup column on a row.

  4. When the item is successfully tracked and linked to the selected row, you'll see a Tracked regarding message.

    Item tracked successfully.

View a linked email or appointment in your app

You can easily open your app and see the meeting or appointment that you've linked.

  • Next to Tracked regarding, select More commands More commands for tracked regarding. > View in Dynamics 365.

    View the tracked item in Dynamics 365.

Change the row an email or appointment is linked to

You can change the row an email or appointment is linked to using the Change Regarding feature.

  1. Open the email or appointment that you want to link to a different row.

  2. Select Dynamics 365 to open the Dynamics 365 pane.

    Open App for Outlook pane.

  3. Next to Tracked regarding, select More commands More commands for tracked regarding. > Change Regarding.

    Change Regarding.

  4. In the Set Regarding textbox, enter search text.

    Enter your search text.

  5. When a related row appears, select the row to link the email or appointment to.

    Select row.

Untrack a linked email or appointment

  • Next to Tracked regarding, select More commands More commands for tracked regarding. > Untrack.

    Untrack a email or appointment.

Note

If you untrack an email in a conversation, replies to the same thread may continue to be automatically tracked if there are other tracked emails in that conversation. For more information, see Specify which emails are automatically tracked.

Track all email in a folder

For more information, see Configure Outlook or Exchange folder-level tracking.