Where can I find API Documentation and Requests for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, and Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement?I saw this question was asked in 2018, but the solution did not have a valid page. I am looking for actual API documentation for these two systems, for the purposes of future custom ETL integrations I may be creating in the future.Can I even manipulate D365 data through an API? Does it exist for all 3 of these? Finance, Operations, and Customer Engagement?I can't seem to find a 'swagger' type page with documentation to the API that allows me to add / update / view entities that are within these systems. Maybe even a github with request samples, or an official microsoft documentation page for these APIs would be great.Does anyone have any idea?
Yes, you can manipulate data through API.
You need to be aware that D365 Customer Engagement and D365 Finance & SCM (formerly known as Finance & Operations) are two completely different systems. Integrating with them is different.
Since this is D365 Finance forum, I will share information about it. For information about Customer Engagement, please post on other forums (perhaps community.dynamics.com/.../sales or community.dynamics.com/365)
You can start from here:
docs.microsoft.com/.../integration-overview
Basically there are three ways to access data:
- OData (synchronous, real time integrations with data entities)
- Data management (asynchronous, file based integrations with data entities)
- Custom services (synchronous integration where any x++ business logic can be exposed and called)
Here are samples: github.com/.../Dynamics-AX-Integration
And a sample app for integrating using the Data management approach: github.com/.../wiki
Thank you for this information, this really helps! Do you know where I can find a list of endpoint urls for the OData Api? I can't seem to find anywhere a list of endpoint url's that I can actually consume / call using the OData Api. Also is it a protocol or a Api? It's very confusing
OData is a protocol.
en.m.wikipedia.org/.../Open_Data_Protocol
There is no list of entities in any doc site, but you can find it in Entity list inside D365FO. Unfortunately the part that you need in the URL to call it can only be found in a dev system where you can check the PublicCollectionName of the entity.
Why does microsoft not provide a list of urls? That is so inconvenient for us! Is a 'dev system' just a development environment of d365?
Dev system means a development environment for D365FO.
I'm in a dev environment for D365FO. How do I navigate to the PublicCollectionName of an entity, can you give me a quick example?
Open Visual Studio, application explorer. You see AOT (Application Object Tree). Go to data model - data entities. Right click an entity, Open designer. Now you can see it's properties.
Thanks so much! I found a chrome extension that shows me all of the PublicCollectionNames of all entities! chrome.google.com/.../nahbldacmaibopfiiaoboloegpobpccn
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