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Use values from external html web resource for use in API call

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Posted on by dynaman365

Hi All

I thought this thread suitably different to my previous thread to require a separate question.

Is it possible to use data from an external HTML web resource in an API call? eg

I have successfully created a web resource which onLoad calls an external HTML page into Dynamics and passes it the accountId in the URL. This external page uses the accountId to lookup and display further data from a separate database including contacts related to that account.

I need to allow the user to then select one of these external contacts displayed on the HTML page and, using the API, create that contact in Dynamics.

I have familiarized myself with the API and can successfully create a contact using Postman.

Can I retrieve values from the external HTML page to then use them in the API call? Can formContext work here? Or is that only for inbuilt Dynamics elements?

example html page with table of data.

Can I give the table elements an ID which formContext can understand?

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RE: Use values from external html web resource for use in API call

Hi dynaman365,

I think there is no need to create a new action process. You could directly send a request with Web API to create a contact in your web resource like creating a contact using Postman.

docs.microsoft.com/.../web-api-basic-operations-sample
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RE: Use values from external html web resource for use in API call

having watched this video I think I need to create a new action process, but this still requires I pass in values to use for each required parameter. These will be returned by the external web resource, but how to identify and pass them into the values?