Overriding Server-Driven Paging for Business Central API Requests (OData v4)

🚀 Overriding Server-Driven Paging for Business Central API Requests (OData v4)

Working with Business Central APIs means dealing with server-driven paging, especially when retrieving large datasets. Today, I explored a clean and effective approach to override this behavior and improve data extraction performance.

Here are the key highlights:

🟢 Use the Prefer Header

• Add: Prefer: odata.maxpagesize=5000

• Helps control the number of records returned per page.

🟢 Leverage @odata.nextLink

• Business Central automatically returns a continuation link.

• Simply call the @odata.nextLink URL to fetch the next batch of records.

🟢 Works Smoothly with Postman & External Integrations

• Easy to test, debug, and optimize your API queries.

Mastering pagination is key to building efficient integrations with Dynamics 365 Business Central — and this approach helps keep your API workflows clean, scalable, and high-performing. 🚀