Skip to main content

Notifications

Announcements

No record found.

News and Announcements icon
Community site session details

Community site session details

Session Id :
Dynamics 365 Community / Forums / Small and medium business | Business Central, N... / Power BI API vendor ta...
Small and medium business | Business Central, N...
Suggested answer

Power BI API vendor table not showing all fields

(1) ShareShare
ReportReport
Posted on by LF-16052033-0 242
Hello, 
 
When connecting to Business Central to Power BI, how can you see all the fields from the Vendor Table through the APIs connection?
 
is there a way to make all the fields available on all of the tables from BC? 
Categories:
Dynamics 365 Business Central
  • Suggested answer
    Steven Renders Profile Picture
    Steven Renders 5,227 Moderator on at
    Power BI API vendor table not showing all fields
    BC exposes APIs and APIs get certain fields from certain tables. The OOTB APIs are usually based on Page APIs, which are slower compared to Query APIs when only reading data, as you do in Power BI. A user can not edit these APIs, and developers can also not extend APIs, they need to develop new ones.
     
    My suggestion is to always develop your custom Query APIs for any Power BI reporting. It's not difficult to do, and if you want to learn how, then have a look here:
  • Suggested answer
    Saurav.Dhyani Profile Picture
    Saurav.Dhyani 14,302 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    Power BI API vendor table not showing all fields
    Hi,
     
    I don't think you need all fields as there can be so many fields - Microsoft Extension, PTE and ISV Extension.
     
    Make a list of fields that you need and create a custom API to have data available in API to Power BI.
     
     
    Regards,
    Saurav Dhyani
  • Suggested answer
    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    YUN ZHU 78,032 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    Power BI API vendor table not showing all fields
    Hi, because what is connected in Power Bi is not a table but a page. The fields are not added to the page, so not all fields are displayed.
    If you are connecting to a Web Service (Odata), you can add the fields to the page first so that they will also appear in Power Bi.
    If you are connecting to a standard API, unfortunately this requires customization as of now.
    More details: Dynamics 365 Business Central: Can we extend standard APIs? – Download Standard Source Code for APIs
     
     
    Hope this helps.
    Thanks.
    ZHU
  • Suggested answer
    Valentin Castravet Profile Picture
    Valentin Castravet 26,349 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    Power BI API vendor table not showing all fields
    Out of the box not all, but quite a few fields are available. If a field is not available, a developer can create a copy of the API and add the missing field, its pretty simple to do. 
     
     

Under review

Thank you for your reply! To ensure a great experience for everyone, your content is awaiting approval by our Community Managers. Please check back later.

Helpful resources

Quick Links

Daivat Vartak – Community Spotlight

We are honored to recognize Daivat Vartak as our March 2025 Community…

Announcing Our 2025 Season 1 Super Users!

A new season of Super Users has arrived, and we are so grateful for the daily…

Kudos to the February Top 10 Community Stars!

Thanks for all your good work in the Community!

Leaderboard

#1
André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture

André Arnaud de Cal... 292,516 Super User 2025 Season 1

#2
Martin Dráb Profile Picture

Martin Dráb 231,409 Most Valuable Professional

#3
nmaenpaa Profile Picture

nmaenpaa 101,156

Leaderboard

Featured topics

Product updates

Dynamics 365 release plans