Generating a Web Access Key

This is a deprecated feature

October 2022: Web Service access keys have been deprecated in SaaS and replaced with OAuth authentication. Refer to this article: Web Services Authentication

A Web Access Key gives external applications the privilege to communicate with Bevica. The external web application inherits the access permission from the user the key is generated against.

Security in Business Central only allows the user who's logged in to generate and see the web access key.

To generate a Web Access Key

1. Log into Bevica as the required User and environment (i.e. Production or Sandbox)
2. Search for Users and open the user record.
3. Click 'Change Web Service Key' on the ribbon.
4. Say 'yes' to the message 'The current Web Service Access Key will not be valid after editing. All clients that use it have to be updated. Do you want to continue?'
5. On the next dialogue box, set 'Key Never Expires' and click OK.
6. The Web Access Key is then visible on the User page. It will be something like KADoCrn******************3r9wLf45ZNk.

When copying the key to make sure all of it is selected. Some characters are hidden to the right of the box.