Install the Mobile Data Collection app

The Mobile Data Collection (MDC) app requires multiple components to be installed in your environment:

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Business Central application

You can purchase the MDC application from Microsoft AppSource. This is required in order to run the MDC web client.

Before installing the web server files, refer to the System Requirements to make sure your system meets the minimum specifications.

Download the appropriate version of the MDC web server files.
Create a new website on your IIS server and extract the files you downloaded.

Important

Do not start the website yet.
Register your application in Microsoft Entra (fka Azure Active Directory). See here for more information.
- When registering your application, add the URL and port for the website you deployed in the step above as a redirect URL.
- Once the application has been registered, copy the ClientID from the Azure application.
On the IIS server, open config.js in the new website folder you created and update the following:
- MS_API: Replace %environmentName% with the name of the Business Central environment you are connecting to.
- NIC_API: Replace %environmentName% with the name of the Business Central environment you are connecting to.
- clientId: The value you copied from your registered Azure application.
- redirectUrl: The URL and port of where you installed the MDC website. This should match the value you entered in the Azure application.
Once all the information has been completed in the config.js, you can start your website.