How to get invoice PDF via oData V4

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Posted on by Catharsis

Hi.

Is there a standard endpoint to get direct URL-s to purchase invoice PDF-s?

There is some documentation about v2 API that does not seem to work in our current edition. (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/api-reference/v2.0/api/dynamics_purchaseinvoice_pdfdocument)

Is there oData V4 equivalent to this?

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JAngle 133 on at

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Which version are you using?

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Catharsis 65 on at

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Version: W1 18.1 (platform 18.0.24800.26311 + application18.0.23013.23795)

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Catharsis 65 on at

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There is version update scheduled to latest version in May if somehow the methods differ from this version to latest

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Catharsis 65 on at

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No one?

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matthias_rabus 160 on at

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From your answers, I guess you use BC SaaS, right?

If you do so, why doesn't API v2.0 work? I would investigate that first, because API is the best way to integrate with other systems (regarding performance and invest from MS).

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Catharsis 65 on at

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Its on-premise.

I'm already using dozens of oData V4 web service endpoints for integration in various ways. What I don't understand is how this API 2.0 differs from it. Using the URL logic from documentation does not work.

Is there a webservice I can set-up to get direct URL-s to PDFs?

So far I have tried objects 2821 nativeInvoicingPDFs and 5529 pdfDocument but using invoice systemid-s those endpoints simply respond that no such documents are found.

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Catharsis 65 on at

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Ok. So I got 5529 pdfDocument web service endpoint to work.

I falsely assumed that every invoice has PDF already generated by BC automatically. Which seemed logical to me. As it turns out it does not and not finding the document was correct response by the web service. After user has generated PDF for the invoice attachment manually, webservice does find and respond with the content url.

Not perfect, but will do for now I guess

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Thank you for sharing final outcome!

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Westeast 10 on at

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Invoice doesnt need to be first generated manually for it be downloaded. This is not OData but I just tested and am able to download the corresponding pdf of a posted sales invoice using

api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/.../pdfDocumentContent.

This generates and downloads the invoice. You'll first need another query to figure the id of the invoice you need

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