Installation

Add your application by wizard

You can add your application via the integration wizard, you can find the button for this on the dashboard page.

After clicking the start integrating button a pop up will appear with the wizard, please make sure you do not use any pop-up blocker at this point.

Click next and in the following screen you can add your applications that you want to connect. Search for Business Central and click on the Application.

In the Application Settings you will need to fill in the input fields required to make a connection. 

• Display Title: The name of the application, no special requirements.
  • This can be useful if there are multiple Business Central applications, to be able to distinguish between them.
• API url: The URL for the API connection. 
  • For this field you can fill in the base URL, which is the following value: 
    api.businesscentral.dynamics.com
• Company ID information
  • Check the next section for description on how to find this.
• Environment Type information
  • Check the next section for description on how to find this
• Tenant ID information
  • Check the next section for description on how to find this.

Business Central settings location

This section will show you how to find the required values to make a connection to Business Central.

How to find the API URL, Environment Type & Tenant ID

1. Login to Business Central with the administrator account and search for the Web Services section.
   
   
   
   
2. Check a random Web Services and copy part of the URL as shown below. The URL will look something like this:
   • api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/v2.0/da3512cb-28be-4250-ac7f-1788c9f97839/Production
     
     
     
     
3. The values you will need to fill in in the Application Settings of Business central in the APIcenter Wizard are: 
   • The first part of the url is your Microsoft Business Central API url, in this case it would be:    api.businesscentral.dynamics.com
     
   • The third part of the url is your Tenant ID:
     da3512cb-28be-4250-ac7f-1788c9f97839
     
   • The fourth part is your Environment Type and your division accessor:
     Production
     

Company ID

1. Login to Business Central with the administrator account and find the dashboard section. The Company ID is usually listed on top left of your dashboard, in this case our Company ID would be CRONUS NL. 
   
   
   
   

NOTE: sometimes this does not work when you check the application. Then search for 'web services' and click a URL. Then grab what is in between the ''.

Example:

Where the % is a space. So in this example CRONUS NL.

This is case sensitive!

When all the settings are filled in, save the Application. It should look something like the image below.

Up next, Click the "Authorize" button on the bottom right.

And Log in with your Business Central credentials.

Click the "Save" button to save your application's credentials:

In step 3 you can select the packages that you want to make use of. These packages are the flows that determine what data is send from and to Business Central.

In step 4 you can set the all the settings that tweaks your integration without adjusting mappings and or adjusting code. In this step you need to do this for all your flows. The settings we have standard enabled and disabled are based upon 90% of the integrations we currently have running.

Step 5 finishes the wizard and on this point you can enable the flows to start running, if you want to adjust advanced settings we advice to start them manually in the integrations overview.