25
For example, for vendors service, there are many services named vendors with different Object Id's as seen below
My question is what is the difference between them? How are they categorised or what distinguished from another?
Finally which service should I be using?
And I noticed the API response of each service is a bit different.
And what exactly is workflowVendor object?
Is there any kind of documentation at all about this?
In general I would overlook the api given it can’t be extended and is lacking. With web services you can extend standard pages and you get the data and it is easier to develop a none api page as you need less triggers. OData filtering is simple enough to adopt for GET commands so web services, for me are used more often.
If I was working on an integration scenario where a 3rd party needs access then I would use the api as it’s more restrictive. When it is your system you can move between the two but I’d more regularly opt for web services.
Yeah, would definitely like more info on this.
Also, the Business central REST API (which is readily available and not the web service which needs to be manually published) is missing few end points but are available as a web service
For example, purchaseOrders is not exposed in the REST api bbut is available as web service to be exposed
As well as being web services most of them are designed to be used in the regular UI. The difference will therefore be the intended use in the UI. For example a vendor list page will show less information than a vendor card page. If you use the page inspection tool on a page it will tell you the ID. This way as you’re making your way around the application and find an applicable page you can publish it as a web service.
The workflow one is for use with workflow in power automate.
Doubt you will find specific documentation on this but perhaps someone else in the community has something they can dig out.
#1
YUN ZHU
374
Super User 2025 Season 1
#2
Sagar Dangar, MCP
249
#3
Mansi Soni
247
Share
Report
All responses (
Answers (
