Accessing Dynamics Business Central (NAV) Cloud Data, Part 3 – Introduction to Postman
In Part 2 of this post, I reviewed the basics of setting up a web service access key, finding your first API, and then executing the API in your browser.
But the output we had wasn’t all that user friendly. Further, we asked for EVERY account in the system. In this case, there wasn’t a huge amount of data so it wasn’t a problem. But it’s not something you’d want to do with G/L Entries or other larger tables.
Fortunately, you can do a lot more with these ODATA Web Services than just select everything. Theoretically, you could create ever more complex strings and test them in your browser. But that’s not really efficient.
Which brings us to a tool that’s called Postman.
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