Microsoft Excel Your Account Doesn't Allow Editing On A Mac

01.04.2020

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You can set up the Business Central deployment to support an Excel add-in that enables users in the Business Central client to work with data from list pages in Excel. Users can get fresh data from Business Central into Excel and push updated data from Excel to Business Central.

Without this add-in, users can open a list page in Excel from the Open in Excel action on the page, which does not allow them to push changed data back to Business Central. When this add-in is set up, the Open in Excel action is replaced by the Edit in Excel action.

Note

This feature is only available for the Web client.

Note

This Excel add-in is different than the Microsoft Excel Add-in that can be installed together with the Dynamics NAV Client connected to Business Central client by using the Business Central Setup.

Prerequisites

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Your deployment must meet the following prerequisites:

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Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) used to authenticate users.
The Business Central Server instance, clients, and users must be configured for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication.
For more information, see Authenticating Users with Azure Active Directory.
OData enabled and uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for authentication.
For more information, see Using Security Certificates with Business Central On-Premises.
Business Central Web Server installed and configured to use SSL (https).
For more information, see Install Business Central and Configure SSL to Secure the Connection to Web Client.
If your deployment is multitenant, Business Central Web client must accept host names for tenants.
For more information, see Configure the Web Server to Accept Host Names for Tenants.
Business Central client computers have a supported version of Excel.
For more information, see System Requirements.

Expose the Business Central application Web API in Azure AD

When Business Central is configured for Azure AD authentication, the Business Central application is registered as an application in an Azure AD. Before the Excel Add-in can be configured, you must configure the Business Central application in Azure AD to expose its Web API.

For information about how to do this, see Quickstart: Configure an application to expose web APIs.

Register and configure an Azure AD Application for the Excel Add-in in Microsoft Azure

When Azure AD authentication was set up for your Business Central deployment, an Azure AD tenant was created in Microsoft Azure, and an application for Business Central was registered in the tenant. The Excel add-in requires that you add (register) a separate Azure AD application in the Azure AD tenant.

You add the Azure AD application by using the Azure portal. For guidelines, see Register your application with your Azure Active Directory tenant.

When you add an application to an Azure AD tenant, you must specify the following information:

Setting	Description
Name	The name of your application as it will display to your users, such as Excel Add-in for Business Central.
Supported account types	Specifies which accounts that you would like your application to support. For purposes of this article, select Accounts in this organizational directory only.
Redirect URI	Specifies the type of application that you are registering and the redirect URI (or reply URL) for your application. Select the type to Web, and in the redirect URL box, enter URL for signing in to the Business Central Web client, for example `https://localhost:443/BC150/SignIn`. The URI has the format `https://<domain or computer name>/<webserver-instance>/SignIn`, such as `https://cronusinternationltd.onmicrosoft.com/BC150/SignIn` or `https://MyBcWebServer/BC150/Signin`. Important The portion of the reply URL after the domain name (in this case `BC150/SignIn`) is case-sensitive, so make sure that the web server instance name matches the case of the web server instance name as it is defined on IIS for your Business Central Web Server installation.

When completed, the Overview displays in the portal for the new Excel Add-in application.

Grant the Excel add-in application permission to access the Business Central application Web API.
You must give the Azure AD application for the Excel add-in delegated permission to access the Business Central application Web API in Azure AD (which you exposed earlier in this article). This allows users of the Excel add-in to access the OData web services to read and write data.
1. From the application's Overview, select API Permissions.
2. Select the Add a permission
3. On the APIs my organization uses, select the Business Central application.
4. Select Delegated permsission.
5. Select the permission from the list, and then select Add Permission.
For information, see Quickstart: Configure a client application to access web APIs.
Configure OAuth2 authentication in the Excel add-in.
The Excel add-in requires OAuth2 implicit grant flow to be enabled on the Excel Add-in application. You configure this in the manifest file for the Excel Add-in application. From the application's Overview, select Manifest, and then set 'oauth2AllowIdTokenImplicitFlow' and 'oauth2AllowImplicitFlow' to true:
In the manifest, add the following URL entry to the 'replyUrlsWithType'::
Remember to add a comma before or after this enter, depending on where you add it in the list.
Copy the Application (Client) ID that is assigned to Excel add-in application.
You can get this from the Overview page for the application. You'll need this to configure the Business Central Server instance.

This completes the work you have to do in the Azure portal. The final configuration is to add the Excel add-in to the Business Central Server instances.

Configure the Business Central Server Instances

You must add the Excel add-in to the Business Central Server instances in your deployment. You can use either the Business Central Server Administration tool or Set-NAVServerConfiguration cmdlet in the Business Central Administration Shell.

In the Business Central Server Administration tool, in the Azure Active Directory section, set the Excel add-in AAD client ID field to the application (client) ID for the Excel add-in application that you copied from the Azure portal.
2020-3-19 All my Word for Mac files only open in Read Only mode. I can only if I save them as something else. I cannot edit Permission and Sharing even though I am administrator on this machine. I run Parallels and the document open fine in Windows so it is obviously a Mac issue. Microsoft word mac save document read only.
If you use the Set-NAVServerConfiguration cmdlet, set the ExcelAddInAzureActiveDirectoryClientId key.
In the Client Services section, set the Web Client Base URL field to the base URL of the Business Central Web client.
This is the root portion of all URLs that are used to access pages in the web client. This must have the format https://[hostname:port]/[instance], such as https://MyBCWebServer/BC or https://cronusinternationltd.onmicrosoft.com/BC150.
If using the Set-NAVServerConfiguration cmdlet, set the PublicWebBaseUrl key.
In the OData Services section, set the OData Base URL field to the public URL for accessing OData services.
The URL must have the following format https://<hostname>:<port>/<instance>/ODataV4/, such as https://localhost:7048/BC150/ODataV4/.
With the Set-NAVServerConfiguration cmdlet, set the PublicODataBaseUrlkey.

Use the Excel Add-In

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Your users can now use the Excel add-in. When a list page shows the Edit in Excel action, then users can open lists, such as the Customers page, in Excel and work with the data there. They can use the add-in to update data in Business Central, and they can get fresh data from the database.

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