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Introduction: I had a requirement where the Web Services / APIs in NAV and Business Central On-premise needed to be exposed outside the VM to be consumed by third-party applications. Also, this blog is a continuation of my previous blogs on NAVUserPassword and Single Sign On(SSO)   In this blog, let us see how to expose the Webservice / API URLs outside the server and consume them. Pre- requisites : Microsoft Dynamics Business Central On-premise Static IP assigned to the Server DNS configured with SSL or Self-signed certificate. Demonstration: 1. Changes to Business Central On-Premise / NAV Administration Console: Inside the Administration Console, you need to make sure that either you Business Central already has a way to be authenticated with the DNS link that you have provided. You can refer to my blogs   NAVUserPassword  and  Single Sign On(SSO)  for this After that make sure you enable SSL and change the Base URL to '<https://YourDomain:Port/ServerInstance>'. Also,

Introduction: Have you ever got into a requirement, where you are needed to actually execute the logic separately for different client types? Well, this blog is just going to discuss the ClientType DataType and different ways of getting ClientTypes and how to use it in your code. Pre- requisites : Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Online AL Language Extension VS Code References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/methods-auto/session/session-currentclienttype-method https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/methods-auto/session/session-defaultclienttype-method https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/methods-auto/clienttype/clienttype-option Demonstration: ClientType: In order to understand how to use ClientTypes, we need to understand what ClientTypes represents. ClientType is an Option based DataType introduced in Business Central. That is in order to get