(Posting here because there’s no Business Central forum yet.)
I’m testing Velixo for Business Central (BC) and my hope quickly faded when I saw how connections are handled. There are two key issues:
- Users are forced to manually add each BC company as a new connection. For groups with many companies, this is slow and painful. The Velixo plug-in should allow multiple companies from a single environment to be selected, thus easing set up. Perhaps a user could just pick the environment and be shown a default list of all the available companies with default names (the company name) for the connection name, with checkboxes beside each for the user to deselect any not desired.
- The plug-in should be able to save and recall a group of connections (call it favourites or whatever). That way, if I load up a new sheet, it’s quick to load all the typical connections. This is a key issue versus Velixo competitors–no other ones require you to set up connections every time. They’re saved by the plugin.
A potential way to solve both issues at once, and improve ease of use for all users at a company, is to have the Velixo extension in BC serve as the “single source of truth” for connections: the BC admin would create a list of allowable connections and their names for the plugin. The plugin then just pulls that from the server and never needs to ask the user to create a connection. The connection list already exists and is consistent for all users.
These are important issues for BC users.
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Name: Chauncey Beggs
Excel version: 16.0.19328.20244
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