Business Central On-Premise Connection Setup

This guide walks you through the steps to configure the RapidiConnector and connect your on-premise Business Central (BC) environment to Rapidi. Before you configure the connection in Rapidi, there are a few things that you need to keep in mind:

Prerequisites

  • Business Central On-Premise installed and accessible
  • RapidiConnector installed on the BC server - please check the following instructions
  • Admin access to Business Central and Rapidi.

Connection Setup in myrapidi ( after the Rapidi connector has been successfully installed):

  • Go to your Rapidi service → Connections → Choose MS Dynamics 365 BC (NAV) OData from the drop down list and click on New Connection
  • Fill in the connection details as follows:
  1. Authentication Type: NTLM (windows local network)
  2. Server Connect: Specify the full path to your Business Central. For example, the URL would look like as follows:  http://app01.lmn.lan:1541/BC_W9/ODataV4/Company('Demo%20Master').
  3. Company: Specify the Business Central company name ( e.g. Demo Master).
  4. UserID: Here you specify the userid (credentials) to access your Business Central instance. 
  5. Password: Here you specify the Password corresponding to the above UserID.
  6. Domain: Add your local domain ( e.g. LMN).
  7. Resource: leave blank.
  8. Metadata URL: Copy from the Server Connect and modify it -remove everything after OdataV4/ and add $metadata).See the following example: http://app01.lmn.lan:1541/BC_W9/ODataV4/$metadata.
  9. Use SSL - leave unchecked. 

Then, save the connection and click on Test and afterwards on Read Design to read the full pages pages layout and metadata from Business Central.