Connect to Dynamics 365 Business Central Data and Transfer Data in Talend

This article shows how you can easily integrate the CData JDBC driver for Dynamics 365 Business Central into your workflow in Talend. This article uses the CData JDBC Driver for Dynamics 365 Business Central to transfer Dynamics 365 Business Central data in a job flow in Talend.

Connect to Dynamics 365 Business Central in Talend as a JDBC Data Source

You can follow the procedure below to establish a JDBC connection to Dynamics 365 Business Central:

1. Add a new database connection to Dynamics 365 Business Central data: To add a new connection, expand the Metadata node, right-click the Db Connections node, and then click Create Connection.
2. In the resulting wizard, enter a name for the connection.

3. On the next page, select Generic JDBC from the DB Type menu and enter the JDBC URL.

   To authenticate to Dynamics 365 Business Central, you must provide the User and AccessKey properties.

   To obtain the User and AccessKey values, navigate to the Users page in Dynamics 365 Business Central and then click on Edit. The User Name and Web Service Access Key values are what you will enter as the User and AccessKey connection string properties. Note that the User Name is not your email address. It is a shortened user name.

   To connect to data, specify OrganizationUrl. If you have multiple companies in your organization, you must also specify the Company to indicate which company you would like to connect to. Company does not need to be specified if you have only one company.

   Built-in Connection String Designer

   For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Dynamics 365 Business Central JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.

   java -jar cdata.jdbc.d365businesscentral.jar

   Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

   A typical JDBC URL is below:

   jdbc:d365businesscentral:OrganizationUrl=https://myaccount.financials.dynamics.com/;
4. Enter the path to the cdata.jdbc.d365businesscentral.jar file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
5. Right-click the connection and then click Retrieve Schema.
6. Click Next with the default options to select the tables you want to import.
7. Finish the wizard with the default options.

Output the Accounts Table to a Flat File

You can follow the procedure below to transfer the Accounts table to a flat file output component:

1. In the Table Schemas node, drag the tables to the workspace.
2. In the dialog that is displayed, select the tJDBCInput component.
3. Next, drag a tFileOutputDelimited component from the Business Intelligence tab of the Palette into the workspace.
4. Right-click the Accounts tJDBCInput component and drag a vector to the output file.

Run the project to transfer the data.