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BusinessCentral URLs availability in email clients

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We faced such an issue with availability of URLs in notification emails generated from BC in most of e-mail clients.

Those URLs which are generated by BC can refer different types of BC clients (web, windows, mobile). This actually gives similar URLs but with different protocols in the beginning. If we use URL for web client (which starts from https://) that works. However, if we want to use URL for different client, lets say, mobile (which starts from ms-dynamicsnav://) this will not work as needed - email clients remove the link leaving only simple text in the message. I can see the link is there if I open the e-mail in desktop version of Outlook. But the same is not possible neither in web version of Outlook or mobile app nor Gmail web or Android app (or other web-based mail service). URL itself is correct and if I open it from different place it starts application as needed.

So the issue is specifically with blocking of URLs by mail clients, probably due to certain security reasons.

Does anyone have any thoughs on how to make those available? Is there any setup possible (put any exceptions or anything like that) for either email clients/apps or in the system? Primary looking for a solution for mobile.

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    Marco Mels Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hello,

    That is a good question.

    For WinClient, the protocol name is DynamicsNAV://. On a Windows PC, this is stored here:

    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DYNAMICSNAV\Shell\Open\Command

    With value:

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central\140\RoleTailored Client\Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.exe -protocolhandler "%1"

    Depending from where you open the message with the url, that does not need to be a PC that does have Dynamics NAV installed. When using ClickOnce client, we also do not support this kind of scenario's because there is a high chance that on the device no local installation of Dynamics 365 BC is installed.

    I would suggest that you do raise  this as an feature request via https://aka.ms/bcideas . I will be very eager to know if this will be addresses by the product group. For now I suggest you use WebClient as default application.

    Thanks.

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    Volodymyr.Fedorets Profile Picture
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    experience.dynamics.com/.../

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    Marco Mels Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Added a vote for the suggestion, thank you.

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