Generate GUIDs for API use

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Posted on by zielus

Hi,

I'm trying to create new customer via BC api v2, but examples available in documentation contains id and name values which I would like to be set automatically - generated GUID and next available customer number like C00020. Acording to documentation I need to POST JSON body like this:

{
    "id": "f2a5738a-44e3-ea11-bb43-000d3a2feca1",
    "number": "10000",
    "displayName": "Adatum Corporation",
    "type": "Company",
    "addressLine1": "192 Market Square",
    "addressLine2": "",
    "city": "Atlanta",
    "state": "GA",
    "country": "US",
    "postalCode": "31772",
    "phoneNumber": "",
    "email": "robert.townes@contoso.com",
    "website": "",
    "taxLiable": true,
    "taxAreaId": "90196a90-44e3-ea11-bb43-000d3a2feca1",
    "taxAreaDisplayName": "ATLANTA, GA",
    "taxRegistrationNumber": "",
    "currencyId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "currencyCode": "USD",
    "paymentTermsId": "04a5738a-44e3-ea11-bb43-000d3a2feca1",
    "shipmentMethodId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "paymentMethodId": "3b196a90-44e3-ea11-bb43-000d3a2feca1",
    "blocked": " ",
    "lastModifiedDateTime": "2020-08-21T07:38:44.293Z"
}

How to get id for new customer and 'next available' customer number?

When I omit id and number in request body I get "Invalid Request Body" error :/

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JAngle 135 on at

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Within BC search for api setup and verify the template assigned to table 18 has a no. series assigned to it

then omit the fields from the POST action.

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zielus 5 on at

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Thank you Josh for the tip! I couldn't find an option to choose No. Series for Configuration template but figured out that the problem was in json request body itself.

I think example request body available here:

docs.microsoft.com/.../dynamics_customer_create

is not correct. I had to remove from request body "taxAreaDisplayName" and "lastModifiedDateTime" fields and I finally get "201 Created" response :) Of course I omitted "id" and "name" and that fields was generated automatically.

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YUN ZHU 96,039 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi, If you set the default No. Series for the Customer in BC, as long as you omit these two fields, the system will automatically generate it.

For example,

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Thanks.

ZHU

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zielus 5 on at

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Thank you ZHU! I modified my json request body and now works like a charm :)

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Thanks, Josh, for the helpful tip! Although I couldn't find an explicit option to select "No. Series"or UUID/Guid Generator for the Configuration template, I discovered that the issue actually resided in the JSON request body.

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