Getting Started

This section explains how Media Bridge works and walks you through the one-time setup. After reading it, you can store new pictures in external storage and move your existing pictures there.

What's in this section

• How Media Bridge works: storage sources, the kinds of records that have pictures, and what happens when you add, view or delete a picture.
• Assign permissions: which permission sets users and administrators need.
• Set up external storage: connect a file account, test the connection and switch to External File Storage.
• The Media Bridge Setup page: every field and action on the setup page.

Setup checklist

Follow these steps in order the first time you use Media Bridge in a company.

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    A[Assign permission sets] --> B[Create a file account]
    B --> C[Assign it to the Media Bridge file scenarios]
    C --> D[Test the connection]
    D --> E[Run the migration wizard]
    E --> F([Pictures are stored externally])

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1. Assign the permission sets to administrators and users.
2. Set up external storage: create a file account and assign it to the Media Bridge file scenarios.
3. Test the connection from the Media Bridge Setup page.
4. Run the migration wizard. A migration without failures switches the company to External File Storage, even when there are no pictures to move yet.

Want to keep pictures in Business Central?

You don't have to set anything up. Media Bridge starts with Tenant Media as the storage source, which is the standard Business Central behaviour. You still get variant pictures and employee drag and drop.

Several companies in one environment?

If other companies should use the item pictures of one main company, set that up after this checklist. See Multi-Company.