Webservices
Web services are a lightweight, industry-standard way to make application functionality available to a variety of external systems and users. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 supports creation and publishing of Dynamics NAV functionality as web services. A Web API is a development in Web services where emphasis has been moving to simpler representational state transfer (REST) based communications. Restful APIs do not require XML-based Web service protocols (SOAP and WSDL) to support their interfaces.W3C Web services. In relation to W3C Web services, the W3C defined a Web service as:. A web service is a software system designed.
-->SOAP web services enable full flexibility for building operation-centric services. They provide industry-standard interoperability and channel and host pluggability.
Web Services Setup
You can use SOAP to interact with page or codeunit web services in Business Central .
| To | See |
|---|---|
| Review the different options for creating URIs to interact with SOAP web services. | SOAP Web Service URIs |
| Review the set of operations that are available when a page is exposed as a web service. | Basic Page Operations |
| Learn how to write code that provides a list of existing companies in a Business Central database. | Using SystemService to Find Companies |
| Ensure that field values are updated from web services. | Using Properties to Indicate Field Value Presence |