Question about Business Central and network drives

twimber2@gmail.com · 2019-01-25

hello all! hopefully i chose the correct subforum, i am bad about choosing.

I am reading up on how to transition from NAV RTC versions to Business Central. i've read that dotnet customizations will not work and i will need to find other solutions...but that's a question for another day. I have multiple modifications for various customers that help with importing data (some that use dotnet).

my problem is this:

can business central view/interact with a network drive on-premise or some sort of "drive" or Azure Storage on azure as cloud BC?

example:

Every morning, a user imports orders from an alternate source such as a website (using an xmlport)
On the Sales & Receivables setup page/table is a field called "Order Import Folder Location" and it's set as '\\server\\fileshare\\Order Imports\'
a job queue is set up to run a codeunit that runs the specified xmlport above for any file it finds in that folder.

is this something that's able to be done in Business Central?

Juhl · 2019-02-02

You can use Azure storage.
File storage type, can be access by REST by BC, and be mapped to normal network drive in windows.

gvolkov · 2019-01-25

Is your Business Central on-premise or SaaS? Your dotnet customization will have to be reworked in order for it to work, but not in all cases.

kriki · 2019-01-28

[Topic moved from 'NAV Tips & Tricks' forum to 'NAV Three Tier' forum]

wynner0 · 2019-02-01

I believe this is possible by setting up onedrive folder but haven't seen it implemented anywhere yet.
I recommend this NAV Techdays video some information might be useful for you around minute 28:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dst1P-isB14

Juhl · 2019-02-02

You can use Azure storage.
File storage type, can be access by REST by BC, and be mapped to normal network drive in windows.

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