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Posting a Positve inventory adjustment via BC Web Services

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Posted on by G_J_Ceasar

Can anyone point me towards actual real-life examples (pref. code examples) of how someone actually - for-real - posted a inventory quantity adjustment via the BC Web Services (using either the OData or SOAP version)?

I've read a lot of suggestions that it is possible, but never any convincing evidence. Every lead is as slippery as an alien spaceship sighting.

To be clear, I'm wanting to do (via Web Service) essentially what one does in this UI ...

There are rumors one can do it via the CodeUnit-22 web service, but without documentation it's just a lot of trial and error to figure out how to do it.

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Marco Mels on at

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Hello,

We currently do not have dedicated Dev support via the Dynamics 365 Business Central forums, but I wanted to provide you some additional resources to assist. If you need assistance with debugging or coding I would recommend discussing this on one of our communities.

www.yammer.com/dynamicsnavdev

www.dynamicsuser.net/.../14

I will open this up to the community in case they have something to add.

Thanks.

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Inge M. Bruvik 1,111 Moderator on at

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In my eyes your best option is to build a custom API for this

learn.microsoft.com/.../devenv-develop-custom-api

There is a standard API for G/L Journals and you can probably copy the way they handle it in that API.

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Inge M. Bruvik 1,111 Moderator on at

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And here is the source for the standard API's

github.com/.../pages

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G_J_Ceasar 5 on at

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Mind blown ... ok.

Am I right in translating this to mean that the custom API I'd create is essentially just doing CRUD on the database table?

Suppose that the "client" of this API was going to run on the same server as BC's SQL database, wouldn't it just be easier for me to do straight inserts into the table?

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Inge M. Bruvik 1,111 Moderator on at

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You should never insert data directly into a BC database.

Using the API makes sure that the business logic in Business Central is processed as you enter data into the system. That would not be the case with a direct SQL insert.

And this is especially important when it comes to transactional data like the journal lines.

So please use the API's.

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YUN ZHU 95,729 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi, hope the following helps.

https://github.com/ethan-sorenson/PostOrdersWebService

And standard apis in Business Central:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/api-reference/v2.0/resources/dynamics_salesorder

https://yzhums.com/6117/

Hope this helps as well.

Thanks.

ZHU

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