Connect to Dynamics NAV Data and Transfer Data in Talend

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

Connect to Dynamics NAV in Talend as a JDBC Data Source

You can follow the procedure below to establish a JDBC connection to Dynamics NAV:

1. Add a new database connection to Dynamics NAV 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.

   Before you can connect, OData Services will need to be enabled on the server. Once OData Services are enabled, you will be able to query any Services that are published on the server.

   The User and Password properties, under the Authentication section, must be set to valid Dynamics NAV user credentials. In addition, you will need to specify a URL to a valid Dynamics NAV server organization root and a ServerInstance. If there is not a Service Default Company for the server, you will need to set the Company as well.

   Built-in Connection String Designer

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

   java -jar cdata.jdbc.dynamicsnav.jar

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

   A typical JDBC URL is below:

   jdbc:dynamicsnav:http://myserver:7048;User=myserver\Administrator;Password=admin;ServerInstance=DYNAMICSNAV71;
4. Enter the path to the cdata.jdbc.dynamicsnav.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 Customer Table to a Flat File

You can follow the procedure below to transfer the Customer 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 Customer tJDBCInput component and drag a vector to the output file.

Run the project to transfer the data.