Overview

The document contains information about the configurations needed to connect Dynamics Mobile App with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (BC).

Dynamics Mobile provides ready add-on for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (BC).

This allows the mobile apps developed on top of Dynamics Mobile SDK to :

• consume data originating from BC in offline mode

• send transactions to BC

• consume, create, update data originating from BC in online mode ( also called Livelink)

Prerequisites

• Microsoft Dynamics Business Central instance with the following setups:

  • Activated ODATAv4 service for each, entity which needs to be consumed via Livelink

  • Activated NTLM authentication mode

  • ODATAv4 interface visible via internet from Dynamics Mobile Cloud

Configuration

Dynamics Mobile needs certain configurations to be made in order to be able to connect to Microsoft Dynamics Business Central.

The configuration for BC includes 2 main sections:

• Live Link configuration - controls the way the mobile applicaitons consume data from BC in real-time (VAN Sales, Warehouse&Inventory, Approvals)

• Sync configuration - controls the way the mobile applications consume data from BC for off-line mode ( VAN Sales, Surveys, Smart Trade)

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Live Link activation

If the mobile applications needs to consume on-line data via livelink, the administrator needs to activate and configure the live link. The live link configuration is provided for each user role, separately. via the User Role's Settings screen. Please consult with the following page for general information about working with User Role Settings.

Livelink for Microsoft Dynamics Business Central requires the following parameters to be provided

Livelink Settings Example

The format of the setting in the User Role, requires the settings to be wrapped in an object property with name liveLinkService_[MYNAME] , where NAME is arbitrary name dependent on the actual mobile or backend application.

The following example configures a service called warehouseService.

It will allow the mobile devices to use livelink configuration called "warehouseService"

{
  "language": "en",
  ....
  "liveLinkService_warehouseService": {
    "type":"d365bc",
    "authType":"ntlm",
    "servicePath":"MyBCService/ODATAAv4",
    "host":"bc.mycompany.com",
    "port":"7581",
    "protocol":"http",
    "userName":"myuser",
    "password":"123",
    "workstation":"myservermachinename",
    "domain":"mydomain"
  }
 ...
}

Sync connection activation

The mobile apps which needs to consume and send offline data from Microsoft Dynamics Business Central need to have a "syncMethod" setting in the User Role of the mobile users who needs it.

The syncMethod has the following attributes (same as for livelink):

Settings example

The format of the setting in the User Role, requires the settings to be wrapped in an object property with name liveLinkService_[MYNAME] , where NAME is arbitrary name dependent on the actual mobile or backend application.

The following example configures a service called warehouseService.

It will allow the mobile devices to consume offline data from BC.

{
  "language": "en",
  ....
  "syncMethod": {
    "type":"d365bc",
    "authType":"ntlm",
    "servicePath":"MyBCService/ODATAAv4",
    "host":"bc.mycompany.com",
    "port":"7581",
    "protocol":"http",
    "userName":"myuser",
    "password":"123",
    "workstation":"myservermachinename",
    "domain":"mydomain"
  }
 ...
}

See also

• ​ODATA in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central​