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Posted on by Folayinka 5

Hi everyone,

our service consumer is trying to read data from our API, but there are too many records of data in one API request.

I have set a dataitem table view in the API design but the records are still too much.

The API response keeps running into an error.

Is there a way I can break the API request into batches?

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    srttel Microsoft Employee on at

    You might think about filtering the data to get the data in several subsets

    Like discussed here Business Central API limitations - Microsoft Q&A

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    DAnny3211 11,407 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi

    After your odata url add this for example:

    ?$top=5000

    where 5000 is the revcord number you want to be returned

    DAniele

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    DAnny3211 11,407 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    hi

    look this also

    learn.microsoft.com/.../api-design

    pastedimage1670336167631v1.png

    check my answer if it helped you, thanks

    DANiele

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    Folayinka 5 on at

    Okay, I'll try this.

    What of the remaining records? I have like 200,000 records.

    So after the first 5,000...how do i get the remaining?

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    DAnny3211 11,407 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    try ?$top=200000

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    DAnny3211 11,407 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    hello

    or try

    ?limit=0&offset=5000

    ?limit=5000&offset=10000

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    DAnny3211 11,407 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    CIao

    However, I recommend you read this

    learn.microsoft.com/.../api-design

    DAniele

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    Folayinka 5 on at

    Trying this approach now

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    Folayinka 5 on at

    This is an amazing article. I've been watching videos on SOAP and REST web services. But this is by far the most informative and relatable I have seen. Thanks.

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    DAnny3211 11,407 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    check my answer if it helped you, thanks

    DANiele

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