Connection Properties
The connection properties are the various options that can be used to establish a connection. This section provides a complete list of the options you can configure in the connection settings for this provider. Click the links for further details.
For more information on establishing a connection, see Getting Started.
| Property | Description |
| AuthScheme | Specifies the type of authentication to use when connecting to Microsoft Dynamics 365. If this property is left blank, the default authentication is used. |
| OrganizationURL | The URL to your Dynamics 365 organization, sometimes referred to as the resource. To find the correct URL for your Microsoft Dynamics 365 instance, search the Web Services page. |
| Edition | Specifies the Microsoft Dynamics 365 edition in use. If not specified, the default (FinOpsOnline) is assumed. |
| ADFSServer | Identifies the FinOpsOnPremise ADFS Server to be used for authentication. To find this server name, enter echo %logonserver% at the command prompt. |
| ApiVersion | Identifies the API version being used. Keep this setting up to date to ensure that the full range of available API features are accessed during authentication. |
| Property | Description |
| AzureTenant | Identifies the Microsoft Dynamics 365 tenant being used to access data. Accepts either the tenant's domain name (for example, contoso.onmicrosoft.com ) or its directory (tenant) ID. |
| AzureEnvironment | Specifies the Azure network environment to which you will connect. Must be the same network to which your Azure account was added. |
| Property | Description |
| InitiateOAuth | Specifies the process for obtaining or refreshing the OAuth access token, which maintains user access while an authenticated, authorized user is working. |
| OAuthClientId | Specifies the client ID (also known as the consumer key) assigned to your custom OAuth application. This ID is required to identify the application to the OAuth authorization server during authentication. |
| OAuthClientSecret | Specifies the client secret assigned to your custom OAuth application. This confidential value is used to authenticate the application to the OAuth authorization server. (Custom OAuth applications only.). |
| OAuthAccessToken | Specifies the OAuth access token used to authenticate requests to the data source. This token is issued by the authorization server after a successful OAuth exchange. |
| OAuthSettingsLocation | Specifies the location of the settings file where OAuth values are saved. |
| CallbackURL | Identifies the URL users return to after authenticating to Microsoft Dynamics 365 via OAuth (Custom OAuth applications only). |
| OAuthVerifier | Specifies a verifier code returned from the OAuthAuthorizationURL . Used when authenticating to OAuth on a headless server, where a browser can't be launched. Requires both OAuthSettingsLocation and OAuthVerifier to be set. |
| OAuthRefreshToken | Specifies the OAuth refresh token used to request a new access token after the original has expired. |
| OAuthExpiresIn | Specifies the duration in seconds, of an OAuth Access Token's lifetime. The token can be reissued to keep access alive as long as the user keeps working. |
| OAuthTokenTimestamp | Displays a Unix epoch timestamp in milliseconds that shows how long ago the current access token was created. |
| Property | Description |
| OAuthJWTCert | Supplies the name of the client certificate's JWT Certificate store. |
| OAuthJWTCertType | Identifies the type of key store containing the JWT Certificate. |
| OAuthJWTCertPassword | Provides the password for the OAuth JWT certificate used to access a password-protected certificate store. If the certificate store does not require a password, leave this property blank. |
| OAuthJWTCertSubject | Identifies the subject of the OAuth JWT certificate used to locate a matching certificate in the store. Supports partial matches and the wildcard '*' to select the first certificate. |
| OAuthJWTIssuer | The issuer of the Java Web Token. |
| OAuthJWTSubject | The user subject for which the application is requesting delegated access. |
| Property | Description |
| SSLServerCert | Specifies the certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL. |
| Property | Description |
| FirewallType | Specifies the protocol the provider uses to tunnel traffic through a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallServer | Identifies the IP address, DNS name, or host name of a proxy used to traverse a firewall and relay user queries to network resources. |
| FirewallPort | Specifies the TCP port to be used for a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallUser | Identifies the user ID of the account authenticating to a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallPassword | Specifies the password of the user account authenticating to a proxy-based firewall. |
| Property | Description |
| ProxyAutoDetect | Specifies whether the provider checks your system proxy settings for existing proxy server configurations, rather than using a manually specified proxy server. |
| ProxyServer | Identifies the hostname or IP address of the proxy server through which you want to route HTTP traffic. |
| ProxyPort | Identifies the TCP port on your specified proxy server that has been reserved for routing HTTP traffic to and from the client. |
| ProxyAuthScheme | Specifies the authentication method the provider uses when authenticating to the proxy server specified in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| ProxyUser | Provides the username of a user account registered with the proxy server specified in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| ProxyPassword | Specifies the password of the user specified in the ProxyUser connection property. |
| ProxySSLType | Specifies the SSL type to use when connecting to the proxy server specified in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| ProxyExceptions | Specifies a semicolon-separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting through the proxy server set in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| Property | Description |
| Logfile | Specifes the file path to the log file where the provider records its activities, such as authentication, query execution, and connection details. |
| Verbosity | Specifies the verbosity level of the log file, which controls the amount of detail logged. Supported values range from 1 to 5. |
| LogModules | Specifies the core modules to include in the log file. Use a semicolon-separated list of module names. By default, all modules are logged. |
| MaxLogFileSize | Specifies the maximum size of a single log file in bytes. For example, '10 MB'. When the file reaches the limit, the provider creates a new log file with the date and time appended to the name. |
| MaxLogFileCount | Specifies the maximum number of log files the provider retains. When the limit is reached, the oldest log file is deleted to make space for a new one. |
| Property | Description |
| Location | Specifies the location of a directory containing schema files that define tables, views, and stored procedures. Depending on your service's requirements, this may be expressed as either an absolute path or a relative path. |
| BrowsableSchemas | Optional setting that restricts the schemas reported to a subset of all available schemas. For example, BrowsableSchemas=SchemaA,SchemaB,SchemaC . |
| Tables | Optional setting that restricts the tables reported to a subset of all available tables. For example, Tables=TableA,TableB,TableC . |
| Views | Optional setting that restricts the views reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Views=ViewA,ViewB,ViewC . |
| Property | Description |
| AutoCache | Specifies whether the content of tables targeted by SELECT queries is automatically cached to the specified cache database. |
| CacheProvider | The namespace of an ADO.NET provider. The specified provider is used as the target database for all caching operations. |
| CacheDriver | The driver class of a JDBC driver. The specified driver is used to connect to the target database for all caching operations. |
| CacheConnection | Specifies the connection string for the specified cache database. |
| CacheLocation | Specifies the path to the cache when caching to a file. |
| CacheTolerance | Notes the tolerance, in seconds, for stale data in the specified cache database. Requires AutoCache to be set to True. |
| Offline | Gets the data from the specified cache database instead of live Microsoft Dynamics 365 data. |
| CacheMetadata | Determines whether the provider caches table metadata to a file-based cache database. |
| Property | Description |
| AllowDuplicateRecords | Notes whether or not the driver will permit the adding of duplicate records during INSERT operations. To create the record (or update it if a duplicate is found), set this to true. To avoid adding duplicate records, set this to false. |
| BatchSize | Specifies the maximum number of rows included in each batch submitted during batch operations. To submit the entire batch as a single request, set BatchSize to 0 . |
| ConnectOnOpen | Specifies whether the provider establishes a connection to Microsoft Dynamics 365 immediately upon opening the connection. Set ConnectOnOpen to True if immediate connectivity verification is necessary. |
| ContinueOnError | Specifies whether batch requests should continue after encountering an error. (OData 4.0 and higher only.). |
| CrossCompany | Specifies whether data should be pulled only the user's default company, or for all companies. (FinOpsOnline, FinOpsOnPremise, or HumanResources only.). |
| CustomURLParams | A string of custom URL parameters to be included with the HTTP request, in the form field1=value1&field2=value2&field3=value3. |
| DefaultDomain | This property is used for the Oracle Database Gateway for ODBC. |
| EnableAtomicBatchOperations | This property indicates that all Create, Update, and Delete (CUD) requests in a batch are handled as a single action. The success of the entire batch depends on the outcome of all requests. If any single request fails, the whole batch fails and no changes are applied. |
| EnableForeignKeyDetection | Whether to detect the foreign keys in ODBC. |
| EntityTypes | When using entity definitions define what type of entities to include during metadata discovery. |
| IncludeDualTable | Set this property to mock the Oracle DUAL table for better compatibility with Oracle database. |
| IncludeFormattedValues | Specifies whether columns that hold formatted values should be exposed. |
| IncludeLookUpLogicalName | Indicates if the referenced entity name for a LookUp field should be exposed. |
| IncludeNavigationKeys | Specifies whether the column listing should include the primary keys of navigation properties. (JSON responses only). |
| IncludeNavigationProperties | Specifies whether the column listing should include navigation properties. |
| LimitKeySize | The maximum length of a primary key column. |
| MapBigintToVarchar | This property controls whether or not the bigint type maps to SQL_VARCHAR instead of SQL_BIGINT. This property is false by default. |
| MapToInt | This property controls whether or not the long type maps to SQL_INTEGER instead of SQL_BIGINT. This property is false by default. |
| MapToLongVarchar | This property controls whether or not a column is returned as SQL_LONGVARCHAR. |
| MapToWVarchar | This property controls whether or not string types map to SQL_WVARCHAR instead of SQL_VARCHAR. This property is set by default. |
| MaximumColumnSize | The maximum column size. |
| MaxRows | Specifies the maximum number of rows returned for queries that do not include either aggregation or GROUP BY. |
| MinimumColumnSize | Specifies the minimum size, in characters, for Edm.String columns. If Microsoft Dynamics 365 reports a smaller size, the provider uses this value instead. |
| Other | Specifies additional hidden properties for specific use cases., to be used only when our Support team advises it, to address specific issues. See Remarks for details. |
| Pagesize | Specifies the maximum number of records per page the provider returns when requesting data from Microsoft Dynamics 365. |
| PseudoColumns | Specifies the pseudocolumns to expose as table columns, expressed as a string in the format 'TableName=ColumnName;TableName=ColumnName'. |
| Readonly | Toggles read-only access to Microsoft Dynamics 365 from the provider. |
| RTK | Specifies the runtime key for licensing the provider. If unset or invalid, the provider defaults to the standard licensing method. This property is only required in environments where the standard licensing method is unsupported or requires a runtime key. |
| Timeout | Specifies the maximum time, in seconds, that the provider waits for a server response before throwing a timeout error. |
| UpperCaseIdentifiers | This property reports all identifiers in uppercase. This is the default for Oracle databases and thus allows better integration with Oracle tools such as the Oracle Database Gateway. |
| UseClientSidePaging | Specifies whether or not Microsoft Dynamics 365 should return data using client-side paging, if your source supports it. To use client-side paging, set this to True. To use server-side paging, set this to False. |
| UseDynamicStoredProcedures | Specifies whether or not stored procedures are listed dynamically. |
| UseEntityDefinitions | Specifies that queries should use entity definition metadata endpoints, rather than the standard $metadata endpoint. |
| UserDefinedViews | Specifies a filepath to a JSON configuration file that defines custom views. The provider automatically detects and uses the views specified in this file. |