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How to fetch attachments of employee using business central REST API

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Hello,

I'm trying to use Business Central API to fetch attachments of an employee (and other entities). The get attachment API needs a parentId in order to get the relevant attachments. however, I can't trace any parent id in the employee API. I tried to use the employee ID as the parentId without a success. I got an error response saying the resource can't be located. Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

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    Mohamad Vajid Profile Picture
    Mohamad Vajid on at
    RE: How to fetch attachments of employee using business central REST API

    Hi,

    You can get the parentId by accessing https://api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/v1.0/api/v1.0/companies({id})/employees

    You will get something like this:

            "@odata.etag": "W/\"JzQ0O1BKaXRoT1Ruayt0bVRzMktxaGxMc0ZuNlE2SnJJdXBWblN6Y0JOdDArd1k9MTswMDsn\"",

               "id": "7bdba2c4-c65f-45ab-bd0b-4d866407469c",

               "number": "PS",

               "displayName": "Peter Saddow",

               "givenName": "Peter",

               "middleName": "",

               "surname": "Saddow",

               "jobTitle": "Sales Manager",

               "phoneNumber": "0678-9012-3456",

               "mobilePhone": "1234-5678-9012",

               "email": "",

               "personalEmail": "ps@cronus-demosite.com",

               "employmentDate": "2001-01-01",

               "terminationDate": "0001-01-01",

               "status": "Active",

               "birthDate": "1969-02-12",

               "statisticsGroupCode": "",

               "lastModifiedDateTime": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",

               "address": {

                   "street": "47 Main Street",

                   "city": "London",

                   "state": "",

                   "countryLetterCode": "",

                   "postalCode": "W1 3AL"

    The highlighted id in the above response is your parentId.

    Thanks,
    Mohamad Vajid

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    RE: How to fetch attachments of employee using business central REST API

    But then when I use api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/v1.0{tenant}/api/v1.0/companies({id})/attachments$filter=parentId eq '{empolyeeId}' I get an error response saying "No HTTP resource was found that matches the request URI"

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    RE: How to fetch attachments of employee using business central REST API

    But then when I use the following request api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/v1.0{tenant}/api/v1.0/companies({company})/attachments$filter=parentId eq '{employeeId}', I get "No HTTP resource was found that matches the request URI"

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    RE: How to fetch attachments of employee using business central REST API

    But then It fails on api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/v1.0{tenant}/api/v1.0/companies({companyId})/attachments$filter=parentId eq '{employeeId}' I get "No HTTP resource was found that matches the request URI"

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