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Deprecation of Basic Auth for SaaS has been postponed to 2022

7 Jan

January 7, 2021May 9, 2022 8

Good news: Microsoft decided to postpone the deprecation of Web Service Access Keys (Basic Authentication) until version 2022 wave 1. See confirmation here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/upgrade/deprecated-features-platform#changes-in-2022-release-wave-1-version-200 Originally the plan was to remove basic authentication with version 2021 wave 1. Integrations with Business … Read More »

Batch calls with Business Central APIs (3) – Tips and Tricks

6 Jan

January 6, 2021 10

This is the third post in a series about batch calls with Business Central. If you haven’t read the the other posts, then I recommend to do so. You’ll find the first post about basic operations with batch calls here. … Read More »

Batch calls with Business Central (2) – Error handling

22 Dec

December 22, 2020December 23, 2020 1

This is the second post in a batch series about batch calls with Business Central APIs. You can find the first one about the basic operations with batch calls here. In this post, I want to cover one of the … Read More »

Batch calls with Business Central APIs (1) – Basic operation

18 Dec

December 18, 2020 13

A while ago I wrote about deep inserts with Business Central APIs. And I promised to write about batch calls too, so it’s about time to live up to that. 😀 Actually, I did some online sessions about it, like … Read More »

What’s new in Business Central API v2.0

10 Dec

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 29

With the release of Business Central 2020 wave 2, a new version of the standard API set has been released. This new version got its own documentation here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-nav/api-reference/v2.0/. But while looking into it I was missing an overview of … Read More »

How to test Business Central webhooks

28 Nov

November 28, 2020 24

I don’t think webhooks need an introduction. But for those who are new to the topic, here you can find the official documentation. In short, a webhook is a push notification. The “don’t call us, we’ll call you” scenario of … Read More »

Service-to-service authentication for automation APIs in Business Central

14 Sep

September 14, 2020October 3, 2022 40

One of the many new features in Business Central 2020 release wave 2, aka v17, is service-to-service authentication for automation APIs. What does that mean, how does it help us, and how does it work? Automation APIs are used for … Read More »

Deep insert with Business Central APIs (part 2)

1 Jul

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 49

In my previous post about deep inserts with Business Central APIs, I mentioned creating custom APIs that support deep inserts. I tried to create an example with Sales Header / Sales Line, but I gave up because I ran into … Read More »

Deep insert with Business Central APIs

5 May

May 5, 2020July 1, 2020 20

Recently I got a question from a partner: is it possible to insert a sales order and lines all at once with a Business Central API? And the answer to that question is, yes, that is possible. However, little documentation … Read More »

Codeunit API’s in Business Central

5 Mar

March 5, 2020July 1, 2020 54

This blog post was on my list way too long… But now I found some time to sit down and write it. Disclaimer What I’m going to show here is officially not supported (yet). It is an undocumented feature that … Read More »