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Posted on by Harikrushna Sangani

I’ve created a custom query API for a custom table that includes an Enum field.

When I add the Enum field as a filter in the query, the API returns an incomplete response, even though the HTTP status code is 200 (OK). There is no explicit error message in the response.
If I remove the Enum field from the query filters, the API works correctly and returns the full expected response.

Is there a known limitation or configuration required when using Enum fields as filters in custom query APIs? Any guidance or best practices would be appreciated.

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Dhiren Nagar 2,876 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi,

As such there is no limitation on using Enum field in API page as well as you can query with filters on Enum field. I've tried that and it works.

Also in your screenshot I can see filter on date, code and Boolean field but no Enum field filter. Also make sure when you apply filter on Enum field, treat it same as text filter.

I hope this helps.

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Dhiren.

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OussamaSabbouh 11,495 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hello,

There’s no special configuration needed for Enum fields, but OData only supports a single $filter parameter — in your request you’re sending multiple $filters, which can silently break the response (200 OK with empty/incomplete value). The fix is to combine all conditions into one $filter using and, and make sure the Enum filter uses the exact enum value as exposed in $metadata (not the caption), sometimes as a fully qualified enum literal. Once you use one $filter + correct enum literal, the query API behaves correctly.

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Oussama Sabbouh

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Harikrushna Sangani 45 on at

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Thanks for the response!

There is no filter applied at the API level. The filter is applied only when I select the query parameters in Postman.

The image below shows the response without adding the filter row filter(type; Type) { } in the Query object, where Type is an enum data type.

The next image shows the response with the filter row filter(type; Type) { } added to the Query object. However, no OData filter has been applied yet.

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Hi @Harikrushna Sangani There is no limitation on using Enum field in API page + you can query with filters on enum as well.

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Dhiren Nagar 2,876 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @Harikrushna Sangani,

Even use of filter row is allowed in Query API. You can check the example given by Microsoft itself has the filter row.

Check here - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-api-querytype.

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Dhiren.

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Khushbu Rajvi. 21,573 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hope this helps:https://community.dynamics.com/forums/thread/details/?threadid=a8cbb662-00f8-ee11-a1fd-6045bdd51112

https://www.kauffmann.nl/2024/08/22/custom-apis-and-schemaversion-2-0/

https://community.dynamics.com/blogs/post/?postid=086f276b-6190-493d-a9c2-8126e138f7df

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/upgrade/known-issues

https://community.dynamics.com/blogs/post/?postid=73f79206-979c-48a4-8f22-49c8b0e0fdea

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