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Bound Action vs Unbound Action

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Posted on by benovic 350

I an working on a API Endpoint and found that using an unbound action was a lot easier than a bound action. I wonder if bound actions are preferrable for light cases only?

What are the advantages of using bound actions?

What are the disadvantages of unbound actions?

  • DAnny3211 Profile Picture
    DAnny3211 11,407 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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  • Inge M. Bruvik Profile Picture
    Inge M. Bruvik 1,161 Moderator on at

    That all depends on your use case i think.

    If you want to handle one specific record f.ex. post one single sales order - bound action is preferred.

    If you just want to start a procedure that will handle multiple records and possible spanning several tables then you can use an unbound action.

  • YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    YUN ZHU 98,464 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi, just adding some info.

    Creating and Interacting with an OData V4 Bound Action

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-creating-and-interacting-with-odatav4-bound-action

    Creating and Interacting with an OData V4 Unbound Action

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-creating-and-interacting-with-odatav4-unbound-action

    Hope this helps as well.

    Thanks.

    ZHU

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