Tag: API

Inexplicable delays when calling (OnPrem) Business Central API’s (and how to solve it)

So, I was reminded recently during a twitter thread about an issue we had been having that we investigated quite thoroughly to figure out what was going on. The issue We always try to upgrade all customers to latest release – and we encountered some delays in API communications, which seemed to got worse at …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2023/01/26/inexplicable-delays-when-calling-onprem-business-central-apis-and-how-to-solve-it/

Business Central API – leave out CompanyId from the URL

Here’s a nice trick I wanted to share with you simply because I didn’t know this was possible (probably a lot of you already know, but if not – here you go ;-)). It could come in handy in some situations. You probably are very aware about how we’re supposed to use Business Central API’s …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2022/02/28/business-central-api-leave-out-companyid-from-the-url/

Documenting your Business Central (custom) APIs with OpenAPI / Swagger

For reasons that are not too important, I am trying to find a way to “describe my custom APIs”. You know. You’re at a project, you had to implement an integration with a 3rd party application, and you develop some custom APIs for it. When done, you have to communicate this to the 3rd party …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2021/06/09/documenting-your-business-central-custom-apis-with-openapi-swagger/

Which API’s are available in my Business Central environment?

Here’s a short post with a small tip about something a lot of you probably already know. How’s that for an intro 🤪. If you remember these posts: Getting not-out-of-the-box information with the out-of-the-box web client Check Customer License in an OnPrem db – from the web client Then you know there’s quite a lot …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2021/02/19/which-apis-are-available-in-my-business-central-environment/