Thank you for attending our webinar: “Upgrade to SaaS: Overcoming file management Limitations“
Please find the uploaded webinar recording HERE.
The following topics were explored during the online webinar:
- Universal Code Initiative
- The limitations of Business Centrals’ cloud environment
- File Management usage in NAV and BC On-Premise environments
- Using streams and user input dialogs to replicate file read and write functionalities
- Using BLOBstorages to simulate temporary file saving, archiving, reading
- Accessing a cloud environment with the help of OAuth2.0 libraries
Please find all questions and answers below
Q: What about: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/across-onedrive-overview?
A: This is also a great approach, but I cannot provide any specific answers. One place I’d start is seeing how to utilize Codeunit “Document Service Management”, this article can be of great use: https://yzhums.com/19896/
Q: Is S2S supported by msnraji solution?
A: S2S is supported by the solution in the sense that it can be expanded not to use the user input. The key factor is setting it up to save the Access Token for later usage so that you won’t need to update it. (You will be required to log in and receive the access token at least once). When setting up, set the scope to have the offline_access tag, for example:
https://graph.microsoft.com/.default offline_access.
Q: How do we handle file compression/decompression (zip files) in SaaS using standard?
A: We can handle file compression/decompression with the help of codeunit 425 “Data Compression”.
A bit of searching can help you find some examples: https://github.com/microsoft/ALAppExtensions/blob/main/Modules/System/Data%20Compression/src/DataCompression.Codeunit.al
https://yzhums.com/21483/
Q: What about files in azure file share/azure blob storage? Does Azure Blob Storage use Azure Functions?
A: As far as I know, Azure Blob storages work in a similar way and there are numerous ways it can be utilized/created, one of those methods would be this open-source library: https://github.com/cosmoconsult/D365BC-Blob-Storage-API.
Generally speaking, lots of Azure functions can be accessed through the presented library by MSNRaju or the one in the link, it all boils down to what kind of requests are being sent to the Azure app.
Q: Are other cloud file shares supported like google drive?
A: Yes, but it would require modifying the solution a bit since the presented library is built to support Microsoft’s graph API. For example, google resources (Such as Google Drive) can be accessed through OAuth2.0: https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2, same goes for DropBox: https://developers.dropbox.com/oauth-guide
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