Publishing the NAV objects

To expose the NAV business objects and entities we have previously created to an external world, we need to publish them as a web service:

1. To do so, we can open the Web Service page in NAV and create the new entries (with Published = TRUE) for the Codeunit object:

   

2. Here we need to set the following parameters:

   • Object Type: Codeunit

   • Object ID: ID of our previously created codeunit in NAV (obviously, the object ID can be a standard range or a custom range)

   • Service Name: This is the name of our codeunit web service (without spaces!)

   • Published: TRUE

3. When published, NAV gives the SOAP URL. We can test if all is working by opening a browser and load the returned URL.

4. For every Query object to publish, we need to create an entry in the Web Services page with:

   • Object Type: Query

   • Object ID: ID of our previously created Query in NAV

   • Service Name: This is the name of our Query web service (without spaces!)

   • Published: TRUE

   This is the final result:

   

5. After publishing a Query object...