Prerequisites
Before attempting to share your accounts using Validis Connect, please ensure the following:
- You are online and connected to the internet.
- You have a working Accounting Package and you can access the data to share within the Accounting Package.
- You know your Tenant ID (steps provided below)
- You have a Dynamics 365 account with Extension Management permissions
- You have installed the Validis Extension (MS Dynamics 365 Business Central Online Setup Guide)
- The user sharing must have the Cloud Application Administrator role in their Microsoft tenant. You may need to speak to your IT department about this. (See Microsoft's documentation here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/enterprise-apps/grant-admin-consent?pivots=portal)
Locating your Tenant ID
Your Tenant ID can be found in your Dynamics 365 Business Central Online dashboard. First, navigate to businesscentral.dynamics.com and sign into your account.
Click the question mark (?) on the right side of the banner. This will open the Help sidebar menu.
Then click Help & Support under the Other Resources tab.
The Help & Support pop-up will be displayed, you can find the Tenant ID near the bottom left of the window. It will be labeled as an Azure AD tenant.
If this is your first time connecting your Microsoft account, you will receive the following pop-up, asking for your Tenant ID.
Copy and paste the Tenant ID from before into the field then click Confirm.
The Tenant ID will be saved for future shares. It can be seen at the bottom of the list of accounting packages. You can edit or delete it when necessary.
After entering the Tenant ID, you will be prompted to sign in to your Dynamics 365 account and grant permissions to the application.
Please read the terms outlined and once ready, click Accept. The share will now begin.
(If you do not have the required Cloud Application Administrator role listed in the prerequisites at the beginning of this guide, you cannot proceed past this step).
Your shared data is now being queued for processing in the Validis central system. You can switch off your desktop and disconnect from the network at this point if you wish.
You can view the progress of your share in the Validis Portal (to see the current status you may need to refresh your browser). The status will change from Processing to Completed.