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Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

You're reading from   Programming Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Build powerful, robust, and scalable extensions customized for your business requirements

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803236414
Length 466 pages
Edition 7th Edition
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David Studebaker David Studebaker
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Marije Brummel Marije Brummel
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Natalie Karolak Natalie Karolak
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Christopher D. Studebaker Christopher D. Studebaker
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Introduction to Business Central 2. Chapter 2: Tables FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Data Types and Table Fields 4. Chapter 4: Pages – The Interactive Interface 5. Chapter 5: Reports and Queries 6. Chapter 6: Introduction to AL 7. Chapter 7: Intermediate AL 8. Chapter 8: Extensibility beyond AL 9. Index 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

API objects in AL

AL in Business Central gives you the ability to create two types of objects dedicated to the RESTful API if the built-in pages are not sufficient to interchange data with external systems. If you need to read and write data, use a page of the API type. If you need to read data, possibly from multiple tables, use a query of the API type:

  • API page: Supports read-write transactions. Cannot be extended. Exposes data from a single table.
  • API query: Read-only operations. Cannot be extended. Can expose calculated data from multiple tables.

API pages have a set of required properties that must be filled in, as listed in the following table:

APIPublisher

Sets the publisher of the API endpoint the page is exposed in. APIPublisher contains the first part of the URL for the endpoint.

APIGroup

Sets the group of the API endpoint the page...

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