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how to get foreign Holidays into BC, so purchasing can better estimate the lead times?

Hi there,

i search for a way to get national holidays from foreign countries into BC. For example, when we send a Purchase Order to a business in france, it would be nice if BC would automagically account for their national holiday on July 14th.

I tried adding other Base Calendars, but i did not find a way to get the entries automatically synced from somewhere. It is way too tedious for us to maintain this manually. Isn't there something more convenient?

Is it maybe the wrong approach? What is best practice here?

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Dynamics 365 Business Central

Hi - You can leverage some assistance from a BC Developer, if you are one, do follow:

1. You'll have to do an API integration which will fetch data into Business central, once a year. Make sure to have a provision to delete all data for years gone by

2. You can use https://www.abstractapi.com/api/holidays-api to fetch all the data into a custom staging table into Business Central. Or use a similar link. These APIs will either accept JSON or in many cases XML Requests. There are plenty of blogs out there to guide you on both formats

3. Now you need a provision to make sure correct country code is entered into the PO/PQ. You can use any default fields available or create a custom one of your own. Either way make sure you have data in this particular field

4. Next, write a subscriber on the "Email" button of a purchase order/quote which will check (1) If your PO/PQ's country matches with any country code in your custom table & (2) then check if Today's date is a holiday in that country (3) If today is a holiday, showcase a confirmation message or an error

5. End

This task above is time consuming to say the least. Only if it adds value go for it and develop an extension in Business Central. Do let the community know if you need any assistance with the AL code

Alternatively, since all emails from BC are sent from a designated outlook/office365 account, check if similar "global holiday" setting configuration is available via your Exchange Server or Outlook Server. There may be apps there to assist you with this on outlook itself, which will consume less time

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