Posts Tagged ‘Tech Thursday’
Tech Thursday: SmartConnect and Windows Platform FIPS Encryption Policy
We haven’t seen it a lot, but more often lately and interesting enough a problem that I thought I’d write a blog article on this issue. In this blog article, we’ll define what the Windows Platform FIPS Encryption Policy is and then how we can make SmartConnect work with this policy enabled. So, the easy…
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Tech Thursday : Extender Enterprise Pre Save Task
Have you ever needed the ability to stop a record from saving in Extender based on some criteria? You have, well so have we! We added the ability to Extender Enterprise 2016 (version 16.00.0030 and higher) and Extender Enterprise 2018.While we cannot stop the save process of every process, we have added the ability to…
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Tech Thursday : Save an Excel File From a REST Service Response
Since SmartConnect 2015 we’ve been able to connect to a variety of REST services using the REST connector. This requires the service to provide a JSON or XML payload. I recently came across a service that doesn’t use JSON or XML. The GoToWebinar Admin API will only give back an Excel file, so I could…
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ODBC Text File Connection
This week’s Tech Thursday will show you how to use a UNC pathname when you are writing your own query using the Microsoft Text ODBC driver. Normally using a UNC pathname is preferable to using a mapped drive letter, since mapped drives can vary from machine to machine. However once you are in the text ODBC…
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Tech Thursday: Upcoming SmartConnect Feature – List Option Lookup
Today we are looking at a feature which will be available in our upcoming SmartConnect 2015 release. The List Option Lookup should be used any time that you need to map a value to a picklist (option set) within CRM but you don’t have the numeric value that field is looking for.Within CRM, when an…
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Applying Payables Documents in SmartConnect Integrations
One of the most common requests we receive at eOne is how someone can apply payments checks or documents using SmartConnect. After all, you can do it with Receivables, so why not Payables? SmartConnect uses Microsoft’s eConnect API to send data to Dynamics GP, which means the data available for update from SmartConnect are based…
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