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Hi, on the old Navision we had developed an extension that read the XML of purchase invoices in a network folder, imported them massively and put them in a transitory account.
It was also developed for BC onprem, but some functions are not compatible with BC saas.
How could we develop this on the cloud?

Any suggestion is welcome, thanks!

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Nitin Verma 21,708 Moderator on at

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Hi,

In that case you can taken an approach for Azure Blob Store, Sharepoint or One Drive which are easily accessible from Cloud version.

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Since BC saas does not have access to local resources like folders, files, I suggest you use an online storage like for example: ondedrive, sharepoint, azure storage,...

Then use the APIs to connect to the online storage.

Integrating with Azure services - Business Central | Microsoft Learn

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Suresh Kulla 50,247 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Instead of local drive try to Implement to read files from one drive or ftp if you can create come.

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Khushbu Rajvi. 20,708 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Since BC SaaS doesn't support direct file access, you can use Azure Blob Storage, SharePoint, or an API to upload XML files. Power Automate or Azure Functions can process and import them into BC.

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Thank you all! I would like to do some tests with OneDrive, I don't currently have a subscription with Azure.
Is there any guide I can follow?

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YUN ZHU 95,748 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hopefully the information below can give you some hints.

Dynamics 365 Business Central: How to import/read files from SharePoint (document library) to Business Central via AL (Graph API)

https://yzhums.com/59843/

Dynamics 365 Business Central: How to upload files from Business Central to SharePoint (document library) via AL (Graph API)

https://yzhums.com/60151/

Dynamics 365 Business Central: How to import/read files from OneDrive to Business Central via AL (Graph API)

https://yzhums.com/53153/

Dynamics 365 Business Central: How to upload files from Business Central to OneDrive via AL (Graph API)

https://yzhums.com/58724/

Thanks.

ZHU

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Khushbu Rajvi. 20,708 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hope this helps as well:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U1KGL8UpeI

https://community.dynamics.com/forums/thread/details/?threadid=c13b1c30-5076-4c96-a0b7-101628eef2ee

https://community.dynamics.com/blogs/post/?postid=31dfebeb-760f-47b7-8b6b-d9ffe84d92b4

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Khushbu Rajvi. 20,708 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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https://demiliani.com/2024/01/19/dynamics-365-business-central-introducing-the-azure-file-share-module/

https://chrisdsilvablog.wordpress.com/2023/07/17/how-to-attach-a-blob-file-from-azure-to-business-central-document-attachment/

https://www.navwithnav.com/store-read-move-or-delete-any-file-using-blob-storage-with-business-central/

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