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Setup for Visma Employees Import

When "Leap Visma Employees Import" is installed on your Business Central environment, a setup must be completed before you can use the product.

Set permissions

1. Open the user list

Click on search in Business Central and search for "Users".

2. Select users

In the list of users, click on the user(s) who should have access to Leap Visma Employees Import.

3. Assign permission sets

Under User Permission Sets specify:

Permission SetDescription
LEAEIBASICFor those who should have access to start the import
LEAEIFULLFor those who in addition to use should do setup for connection to Visma Employees

Open the setup

Via assisted setup

  1. In Business Central click on settings in the upper right
  2. Select "Assisted Setup"
  3. Under "Connect with other systems" see "Configure Leap Visma Employees import"
  4. Click on this to start the setup

Alternative access

Search for "Setup for Visma employee import" directly in Business Central.

Fields in the setup

FieldDescription
EnabledDetermines whether import from Visma Employees should be activated. You must activate the integration before you can import data from Visma Employees
Api Access KeyA key that gives the system access to communicate with Visma Employees. This should be received when ordering Leap Visma Employees Import
Visma Id (tenant)Unique id from Visma that identifies the company in Visma that the connection should be made to. (In the upper right corner in Visma App Store click on the dropdown icon and copy the value in Tenant ID)
Use Visma number seriesSpecifies whether the employee number from Visma should be used as employee number and resource number in Business Central. If you want to use the same number series in both systems, make sure that the number series for employee and resource are set up with manual numbers
Import dimensionsSpecifies whether default dimensions should be created on employee and resource based on dimensions in Visma
Employee number seriesShows what is specified as number series for employee in BC
Employee templateSpecifies which employee template should be used when creating employees from Visma
Update resourcesShows the value "create resource automatically" from the personnel setup. This must be set to "Yes" if resources should be created
Resource templateSpecifies which resource template should be used when creating resources
Resource number seriesShows what is specified as number series for resources in BC
Update unit cost on resourceSpecifies whether a calculated unit cost (hour) should be specified on the resource when updating

Actions in the setup

ActionDescription
Test connectionBy clicking here, an attempt is made to make a connection to Visma Employees to verify that the setup is correct
Create job queueCreates a post in job queue that enables automatic import of data from Visma
Dimension mappingUsed to make connections between dimension in Visma and dimension code in Business Central where these do not match or you want to override in Business Central
Employee mappingOpens the screen for mapping employees and resources. This is used if you have employees or resources in Business Central from before and want to link these to Visma employees to avoid duplicates
EmployeesOpens the employee list in Business Central
Synchronization logOpens log for the import. Here you can see any errors in import