SDK/SAP Business One - Getting started

[Former Member]

Good Afternoon,

I am a software developer that work for a software house that develops applications that read data from various Account packages (Sage 50, 200, 1000, QuickBooks, Navision, Xero etc.), basically a mixture of desktop and cloud accounting/ERP packages.

The next one on our list is SAP Business One as our clients (Banks, Finance Companies) have clients that use SAP Business One.

Basically all we want to do is read (only) the Account Recievable (Sales) and Payable (Purchase) information from SAP Business One.  I can see their is a SDK but it isn't clear how I get the SDK or a copy of SAP Business One to play around with.  Is their a developer group we can join/pay for to download this stuff?

Sorry for really basic questions - just need to know where to get started as I am just starting to look into this and am slightly bewildered by all the information/products.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers

Mat

[ANKIT_CHAUHAN · Accepted solution]

Hi Mathew,

First of all, you need to have SAP Business One and SAP Business One SDK installed on the system.

Once you do that, you can refer to SAP Business SDK Help Center and SDK Samples available. You need to observe the behaviour in SAP Business One Client and then you can perform the same using UI API and DI API.

The UI API provides programmatic access to windows, menus, and events in SAP Business One. The UI API allows you to create new windows, modify existing windows, add new business logic, add or modify application menus, and more.

The DI API provides a programmatic interface to SAP Business One through a set of fully functional business objects. The DI API provides access to the business logic and data-access layers of SAP Business One.

And if you encounter any issues, you can create your own thread in the same place as you did this time.

The same is mentioned here:

Hope it helps.

Good Luck!

Kind regards,

ANKIT CHAUHAN

SAP Business One Global Support

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for response Ankit.

It isn't clear to me how I go about actually getting hold of SAP Business One though.  Do I have to purchase from a partner, even though I only want it for development/testing purposes?

Is there no developer program/licence?

Cheers

Mat

[ANKIT_CHAUHAN · Accepted solution]

Hi Mathew,

No, there is nothing like Developer Program.

To start working, you need to have SDK Development License that you can get either being partner to SAP or being Customer.

Hope it helps.

Kind regards,

ANKIT CHAUHAN

SAP Business One Global Support