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Certificates

Generating Certificates

The necessary client certificates are generated outside the Business Central system. It depends on the bank how the certificate is generated. In order to generate a certificate, you need to contact your bank and use the instructions or programs provided.

Important

Only users with the ITI04CERT-ADMIN permission set have access to the Certificate List page, can manage certificate users and create certificate cards.

Creating a Certificate Card

  1. Choose the Tell me what you want to do icon, and enter Certificate List.
  2. On the Certificate List page, choose New.
  3. On the Certificate List page, fill in the Code field and optionally the Name field.

Adding Users to Certificates

  1. Choose the Tell me what you want to do icon, and enter Certificate List.
  2. On the Certificate Card page, choose the User Permissions action.
  3. On the Certificate Users page, enter the appropriate settings in the following fields:
  • User ID - Specifies the identifier of the electronic banking user who is to be granted selected permissions to manage the certificate.
  • Upload Certificate File - Specifies the permission that the user will be able to upload the certificate file to the system.
  • Use Certificate - Specifies the permission that the user will be authorized to use in bank communication.
Important

If you have enabled data encryption in Business Central, certificate passwords are stored as encrypted. This should be kept in mind during the upgrades on on-premises installations.

Uploading a Certificate File

Important

Only users specified in the list of users with appropriate permissions are authorized upload a certificate file.

To upload a certificate file to your bank:

  1. Choose the Tell me what you want to do icon, and enter My Certificates.
  2. On the My Certificates page, choose the Upload Certificate.
  3. In the dialog box, choose the certificate file.
  4. If the selected certificate is password-protected, a dialog box will appear, where you must enter the password for that certificate.
  5. If the required password is correct and the certificate is uploaded, and the Expiration Date field is filled in on the My Certificates page. This field specifies the date after which the certificate expires.

Certificate Usage Setup

To define the settings that determine the certificate usage policy:

  1. Choose the Tell me what you want to do icon, and enter Certificate List.
  2. On the Certificate Card page, choose the Usage Permissions action.
  3. When the action is selected, the Certificate Usage Setup page opens with the filter set by default in the Account Number field based on the same vendor number as in the context page opened earlier. Now, you can edit the following fields:
  • Payment Proposal Interface - Specifies the payment proposal interface for which the certificate is to be used.
  • Bank Statement Interface - Specifies the bank statement interface for which the selected certificate will be used.
  • Certificate Type - Specifies the type of certificate. The following options are available: Transport Certificate.
  • User ID - Specifies the user ID that can use the selected certificate when using the specified interface while the selected interface is used.
  • Bank Account Code - Specifies the bank account code for which the selected interface is to be used.
Important

Values in the Payment Proposal Interface and Bank Statement Interface fields cannot be entered simultaneously on one line. You should create two separate lines with settings.

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