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What means each single table in Business Central?

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Hi everyone,

I would like to create Power BI reports using data from Business Central. When I connect to Business Central using the connector I see many tables. However I do not know what are they used for. 

Is there a documentation describing each Business Central tables? 

Best,

Kevin

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    JUBEL THOMAS JOY Profile Picture
    238 on at
    RE: What means each single table in Business Central?

    Hi Kevin,

    As all the community people says there is no direct resource available. 

    However you trace the same by the help of NAV table relation details available on following link Navision Table relations

    Which will help you to find the relation between multiple tables and this is architecture mainly used in Business Central as well. It will match almost 90% of the tables relationships. So have a look on the same.

    Thanks and Regards,

    Jubel Thomas Joy

    Navision Planet

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    Olister Rumao Profile Picture
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    RE: What means each single table in Business Central?

    Hi Kevin,

    The names of the Table and Pages do not match.

    and Webservices use Page and not the table.

    So through Inspect you will get the name and the Id of the page you can put this into Webservices you data should match.

  • tanveerk Profile Picture
    70 on at
    RE: What means each single table in Business Central?

    Those are datasets, not the actual tables (like a view in SQL server if you are familiar) created by querying the underlying tables.

  • KC-25070654-0 Profile Picture
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    RE: What means each single table in Business Central?

    Thanks for the documentation however it seems that the name of the of the table in "inspect page" does not fit what is display in "web services". Same for the object id.

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    Olister Rumao Profile Picture
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    RE: What means each single table in Business Central?

    Hi Kevin,

    As far as understanding tables goes, you can go through the functionality in Business Central.
    At any point, you want to know the pages, tables you can use Page Inspect.
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/across-inspect-page

    Then you can use webservices to make those pages accessible to you.
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/webservices/web-services

    Let us know if you need more help,

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    Teddy Herryanto (That NAV Guy) Profile Picture
    13,695 Moderator on at
    RE: What means each single table in Business Central?

    Sadly not. There are heaps of tables there. Just play around with it and ask question to your partner or ask here on what you are trying to accomplish.

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