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Is the only way to connect MS Access to Dynamics 365 Business Central via ODBC Connection

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One of the clients I am working with has a on premise solution currently which they are looking to replace with Dynamics 365 Business Central, as a part of their solution though they will need to retain MS Access as this includes a database for printing of all their product labels.  It is based on customer order details so we need to connect Business Central to it in order to read the order details to do the printing.

Currently they use an ODBC connection to their existing Visual FoxPro based system which they find unreliable, in doing some research I can see there is a direct connector for Dynamics 365 Online within the latest versions of MS Access but looking at the branding of it I expect this is Dynamics F&O rather than Business Central?

If this is the case would ODBC still be the only way to connect or does anyone have any recommendations on what we could use instead which is quicker and more reliable?

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    You might consider an integration tool like Smart Connect: appsource.microsoft.com/.../type.connect|pubid.eone_solutions|aid.smartconnect|pappid.00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

    If you are keeping on-premise as part of the overall architecture it is possible to use an on-prem version of Smart Connect.

    Odbc is a connector type which is available: smartconnect.eonesolutions.com/.../setting-odbc-connection

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