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How to get ODATA Change Tracking for F&O Entities Working

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Hi,

I have been following the documentation on change tracking for Non-BYOD.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/data-entities/entity-change-track

Ive changed the 'Change Tracking' properties on some of my entities and tried both 'Primary Table' and 'Entire Entity'.

Then in postman i call the API with the header containing Prefer: odata.track-changes and the OData-Version: 4.0, similiar to the below link's example.

Use change tracking to synchronize data with external systems (Microsoft Dataverse) - Power Apps | Microsoft Learn

In my case, the URL looks something like

https://XXXX-Xuat.sandbox.operations.dynamics.com/data/VendorGroups

The issue is that i still not getting the delta link in the response, it just gives me all of the vendor group data, even if i do some changes to a vendor group, so i assume i have done the change tracking settings wrong.

Ive read other posts from people who have had similar issues and i haven't found a solution.

https://community.dynamics.com/forums/thread/details/?threadid=2e6d082b-f252-4042-8b45-d28acd554efe

https://community.dynamics.com/forums/thread/details/?threadid=0c89f91d-5553-4d3c-bf04-753383822f54

https://community.dynamics.com/forums/thread/details/?threadid=ab578cb5-c100-4073-82b9-51c3a71995b4

It is sometimes hard/confusion to research because different posts and documentations refer to CRM or another one of the products when talking about change tracking.

Does this feature work for F&O's api? I know it works for CRM as i have done it before.

For CRM, in the URL i would do https://XXXX/api/data/v9.2/ .... and then in the header add the odata.track-changes, so im wondering if i have to add a version in the F&O url, but it doesn't seem to work and i cant find documentation that does it like that in F&O

I have managed to get the change tracking working in the csv export, when i create a batch job that exports an entity, when i did the steps to change the change tracking properties on the entity, but i dont know what im missing to get it working on the API.

Has anyone been able to get it working? How were you able to do it?

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CU30040414-0 2 on at

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Hi there,

Did you end up solving this issue? I'm facing the exact same problem and it's driving me nuts :)

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Raj Borad 1,424 on at

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Hi,

I think the change tracking via OData for F&O APIs does work, but only if the data entity and its underlying table have change tracking enabled.

Please check below things:

1. In AOT, enable “Enable change tracking” on the data entity and on the primary table.
2. Set “Change tracking type” to “Entire entity” or “Primary table only”.
3. Make sure the entity is public, and accessible via OData.
4. Run the OData GET with the `Prefer: odata.track-changes` header.
5. On the first call, a delta link won't appear—only after a subsequent call to that delta link will changes show.

Are you making a second call to the delta link returned from the first response? That’s necessary to see changes.

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Hi Folks,

Did you end up solving this issue? I'm facing the same problem, and it's very frustrating.

Thanks

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Anthony Blake 2,956 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @Community member, @Raj Borad

Change tracking within D365 can be used in the Data management workspace, and therefore using the bulk APIs for packages and recurring integrations.

I don't think that OData directly to D365 supports change tracking.

This link backs that idea up:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/data-entities/entity-change-track#enable-change-tracking-for-non-byod-scenarios

Change tracking can be enabled for non-BYOD scenarios. This includes retrieving record changes through Dataverse virtual entities for finance and operations apps. When change tracking is enabled for an entity, changes can be retrieved through the entity's OData endpoint by adding odata.track-changes as a preference header.

The query you are performing above uses the correct odata.track-changes header, however as you can see this is designed to work with Dataverse virtual entities rather than the OData endpoints directly in F&O. This explains exactly why you have previously had success tracking changes to CE.

So the good news is, instead of accessing the VendorGroups table directly, you can use the Dataverse OData endpoint and access it via it's virtual entity, which enabled the change tracking functionality Dataverse provides. The data in virtual entities comes straight from source, just via a hop to Dataverse which adds the change tracking functionality.

I haven't tried this out yet, but it looks really nice and I will be giving it a go myself soon.

Please reply back when it works!

Anthony

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nspiteri 545 on at

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I'm having the same issue. I followed all that Raj Borad suggested but it still does not show me the deltalink.

Can you elaborate a bit more?

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Anthony Blake 2,956 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @nspiteri

For configuring virtual entities: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/power-platform/admin-reference

To enabled change tracking on specific virtual entities: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/dev-itpro/power-platform/enable-virtual-entities

Good luck.

Anthony

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