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NAV 2016 - NAV Content Pack - Won't Install
skacheech,
The NAV content pack is for online instance of Dynamics NAV but not for on-premises instance of NAV.
In your sceanrio, you can connnect to on-premises instance of NAV in Power BI Desktop, create reports there and publish the reports to Power BI Service. And when you need to refresh the dataset in Power BI Service, you need to use gateway.
Reagrds,
skacheech,
The NAV content pack is for online instance of Dynamics NAV but not for on-premises instance of NAV.
In your sceanrio, you can connnect to on-premises instance of NAV in Power BI Desktop, create reports there and publish the reports to Power BI Service. And when you need to refresh the dataset in Power BI Service, you need to use gateway.
Reagrds,
I'm a little confused. What do you mean an online instance of Dynamics NAV? Can you send me a link with info for that version of NAV.
We have a NAV 2016 environment with OData enabled so that should give us access to the NAV data correct?
The reason we want the NAV Content Pack is because they come with out of the box reports/dashboards which the client will access via the Power BI Online service. We don't want to build those from scratch.
Could you please clarify.
skacheech,
If you deploy Nav in the cloud, it is online, for more details about online Dynamics NAV and on-premises NAV, you can check this blog: http://erpsoftwareblog.com/cloud/2017/03/dynamics-nav-choose-deployment-model-best-suits-business/.
Generally, the content pack is used to connect to online Dynamic NAV, if you are unable to connect to on-premises Dynamics NAV after turning your solution's authentication from 'windows' to 'username', you would need to use the OData entry in Power BI Desktop and re-create reports.
Regards,Hi,
I'm having same issue.
So to clarify - you are saying the content pack will not work for on premise installation of NAV?
they were written in 2015. I'm not sure how many cloud installations there were then..
Could it possibly problem with using them with NAV 2017?
Hi,
I'm having same issue.
So to clarify - you are saying the content pack will not work for on premise installation of NAV?
they were written in 2015. I'm not sure how many cloud installations there were then..
Could it possibly problem with using them with NAV 2017?
