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Business Central Odata Endpoint with multiple Contains()

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Hello Everyone,

I'm currently working on querying the OData v4 /Customer endpoint for Business Central in order to retrieve customers based on a user's search criteria for either name or customer number.

I can successfully make a call to:

https:/api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/v2.0/{_businessCentralOptions.TenantId}/{_businessCentralOptions.Environment}/ODataV4/Company('{_businessCentralOptions.CompanyName}')/Customer


This call retrieves all customers, and I can narrow down the results by adding a filter, for example:

/Customer?$filter=contains(Search_Name,'TESTING')
However, I encountered an issue when attempting to search through both the Search_Name and No fields simultaneously, like this:
 
/Customer?$filter=contains(Search_Name,'TESTING') or contains(No,'50000')
 

This query returns a 501 not implemented error.

In my testing, I found that chaining multiple contains together works if I'm searching within the same field:

/Customer?$filter=contains(Search_Name,'TESTING1') or contains(Search_Name,'TESTING2')
My question is: How can I perform a search on both the Search_Name and No fields simultaneously? I came across an article suggesting the use of the $search option, but it seems to be ignored in my case. Any guidance on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
 
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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    98,421 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    Hi, as far as I know, the 'OR' operator does not support different fields.
    More details:
    "message": "The 'OR' operator is not supported on distinct fields on an OData filter.  CorrelationId:  6b597f3e-4e78-4442-96e6-1222475cb8ab."
     
    In addition, it may be easy to do in the database, but this is also a very special process in AL Language.
    Dynamics 365 Business Central: Cross-column search (OR filters on multiple fields) ★FilterGroup(-1)
     
    Hope this helps.
    Thanks.
    ZHU

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