SData Integration with Sage Accounts 50, 2010 release

Question

Sage says that SData is available in Accounts 50, 2010 release onwards.

I have this version installed, but when I go to http://myserver.com:5493/sdata/accounts50/GCRM/-/$schema or even http://myserver.com:5493/sdata/accounts50/SDO/-/$schema, (and any other SData URL) I get the following ApplicationNotFound reply:

<diagnosis xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" 
xmlns:sdata="http://schemas.sage.com/sdata/2008/1" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" 
xmlns:sme="http://schemas.sage.com/sdata/sme/2007" 
xmlns:http="http://schemas.sage.com/sdata/http/2008/1">
  <sdata:severity>error</sdata:severity>
  <sdata:sdataCode>ApplicationNotFound</sdata:sdataCode>
  <sdata:applicationCode/>
  <sdata:message>
    Unable to locate a handler to process the request 'accounts50/GCRM/-/$schema'
  </sdata:message>
  <sdata:stackTrace/>
  <sdata:payloadPath/>
</diagnosis>

Is there a particular URL that I need to use SData? From the services panel, I see that I am already running the Sage SData service (it was installed along with the Sage software itself).

Answer 1

This is a bit misleading but as mentioned on the SData Forum -

From the SData Forum - Sage 50 sdata error
Posted: 11 January 2012 05:20:03

Although Accounts 2010 and 2011 are SData compliant this is only in place for internal use to support the ACT integration and Sage Mobile applications. There is no support for use by 3rd party developers for these releases and no current plans to introduce support I'm afraid.

Support for 3rd party developer use of Sdata in the Accounts 2012 release is currently in beta and only open to members of the Sage Developers Programe. Just to be clear, the reason why support is currently in beta is not to do with the quality of the Sdata feeds, which are fully functional and tested, but rather to do with us needing time to produce toolset support (e.g. Visual Studio plugins), code samples, knowledge base articles, training programmes and other SDK and support documentation.

So if you want to use SData you'll need Sage Accounts 50 2012 +