Get Transaction currency name for logged in user in Dynamics 365

Recently Microsoft have released quite a few updates to it’s client API and one such is the update to API for getting the currency name of the logged in user.

All this time, Microsoft had an API to get the transaction currency id of the logged in user using the API – . You needed to run a separate query to fetch the currency name based on currency id. However it is being deprecated now and now the replacement API is

This wonderful api returns the name of the currency as well as the id and entityType.

Below is the sample output

Wonderful isn’t it?

Hope this helps!

Debajit Dutta

(Dynamics MVP)

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