Web Services for Achieve Beyond employees Please click on the appropriate service. Achieve Beyond Website; Employee Self Services; Email; Tracker; IT Helpdesk FAQ; Staff Training; Remote Support. For issues with any of the above services, please email us at it@achievebeyondusa.com. We will try to get back to you at our earliest convenience. SOAP Web Services. SOAP is an XML-based protocol. The biggest advantage of using the SOAP Web Service is its own security. SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol. SOAP provides an envelope to send a web services messages over the Internet, using the HTTP protocol. The messages are generally in XML format. Web Services take Web-applications to the Next Level. By using Web services, your application can publish its function or message to the rest of the world. Web services use XML to code and to decode data, and SOAP to transport it (using open protocols). Defines the optional base class for XML Web services, which provides direct access to common ASP.NET objects, such as application and session state. What Are Web Services? Web services are client and server applications that communicate over the World Wide Web's (WWW) HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). As described by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), web services provide a standard means of interoperating between software applications running on a variety of platforms and frameworks.
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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. You can expose pages, codeunits, or queries as web services, and even enhance a page web service by using an extension codeunit. When you publish Dynamics NAV objects as web services, they are immediately available on the network.
Developers can publish two types of web services from Dynamics NAV objects:
SOAP Web Services. You can publish either Dynamics NAV pages or codeunits as SOAP services.
OData Web Services. You can publish either pages or queries as OData services.
Dynamics NAV web services are stateless and do not preserve the values of global variables or single-instance codeunits between calls.
Web Service Protocols
The following table shows the types of web service applications that you can create for the web service protocols supported in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018.
Web Services Https
| SOAP web services | OData web services | |
|---|---|---|
| Pages | Yes: Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations (CRUD) | Yes: Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations (CRUD) |
| Codeunits | Yes | No |
| Queries | No | Yes: Read-only |
For more information about the difference between these protocols, see Web Service Alternatives: SOAP and OData. I c cassino 2.
Page Web Services
When you expose a page as an OData web service, you can query that data to return a service metadata (EDMX) document, an AtomPub document, or a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) document. You can also write back to the database if the exposed page is writable. For more information, see OData Web Services.
When you expose a page as a SOAP web service, you expose a default set of operations that you can use to manage common operations such as Create, Read, Update, and Delete. Page-based web services offer built-in optimistic concurrency management. Each operation call in a page-based web service is managed as a single transaction.
For SOAP services, you can also use extension codeunits to extend the default set of operations that are available on a page. Adding an extension codeunit to a page is useful if you want to perform operations other than the standard Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations. The benefit of adding an extension codeunit to a page is that you can make the web service complete by adding operations that are logical to that service. Those operations can use the same object identification principle as the basic page operations. For an example of how to implement an extension codeunit, see Walkthrough: Creating a Web Service using Extension Codeunits (SOAP).
Codeunit Web Services
For SOAP services only, codeunit web services provide you with the most control and flexibility. When a codeunit is exposed as a web service, all functions defined in the codeunit are exposed as operations.
Query Web Services
When you expose a Dynamics NAV query as an OData web service, you can query that data to return a service metadata (EDMX) document or an AtomPub document. For more information about how to create and use Dynamics NAV queries, see Queries.
Web Services and Regional Settings
Data is formatted according to the value of the Services Language setting for the relevant Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server instance. The default value is en-us. This means that Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server interprets all incoming data as the specified culture, such as dates and amounts.
If you know that the Services Language setting is always en-us, for example, your code can be based on that assumption. V slot brackets. In a multilanguage environment, you will see more predictable transformations of data if data that is transmitted through web services is in a consistent culture.
Similarly, you can use the ServicesOptionFormat setting to specify how Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server must understand option values. If you set the ServicesOptionFormat setting to OptionString, Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server understand option values as the name of the option value, which is always en-us. If you set the setting to OptionCaption, web service data will be interpreted in the language specified by the Services Language setting.
Note
Web Services
In earlier versions of Dynamics NAV, you could enable ServicesCultureDefaultUserPersonalization on the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server instance. This was deprecated in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 in order to guarantee that web services have a consistent culture.
Web Services in Multitenant Deployments
Webservices/device
If your Dynamics NAV solution is used in a multitenant deployment architecture, you must make sure that any code that generates or consumes a web service specifies the relevant tenant. Web services are set up in the application, but typically you want to consume company-specific and tenant-specific data.
If you use the GETURL function, the generated URL will automatically apply to the user's tenant ID. For more information, see GETURL Function.
The URL for accessing a web service in a multitenant deployment must specify the tenant ID in one of two ways: As a query parameter, or as a host name. If you use host names for tenants, the host name must be specified as an alternative ID.
Webservices.sos.state.tx.us
For example, the following URL consumes the Customer ODATA web service for a specific tenant: Casino morongo rv parking.
For more information, see Multitenant Deployment Architecture.
Web Services for Achieve Beyond employees Please click on the appropriate service. Achieve Beyond Website; Employee Self Services; Email; Tracker; IT Helpdesk FAQ; Staff Training; Remote Support. For issues with any of the above services, please email us at it@achievebeyondusa.com. We will try to get back to you at our earliest convenience. SOAP Web Services. SOAP is an XML-based protocol. The biggest advantage of using the SOAP Web Service is its own security. SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol. SOAP provides an envelope to send a web services messages over the Internet, using the HTTP protocol. The messages are generally in XML format. Web Services take Web-applications to the Next Level. By using Web services, your application can publish its function or message to the rest of the world. Web services use XML to code and to decode data, and SOAP to transport it (using open protocols). Defines the optional base class for XML Web services, which provides direct access to common ASP.NET objects, such as application and session state. What Are Web Services? Web services are client and server applications that communicate over the World Wide Web's (WWW) HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). As described by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), web services provide a standard means of interoperating between software applications running on a variety of platforms and frameworks.
-->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. You can expose pages, codeunits, or queries as web services, and even enhance a page web service by using an extension codeunit. When you publish Dynamics NAV objects as web services, they are immediately available on the network.
Developers can publish two types of web services from Dynamics NAV objects:
SOAP Web Services. You can publish either Dynamics NAV pages or codeunits as SOAP services.
OData Web Services. You can publish either pages or queries as OData services.
Dynamics NAV web services are stateless and do not preserve the values of global variables or single-instance codeunits between calls.
Web Service Protocols
The following table shows the types of web service applications that you can create for the web service protocols supported in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018.
Web Services Https
| SOAP web services | OData web services | |
|---|---|---|
| Pages | Yes: Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations (CRUD) | Yes: Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations (CRUD) |
| Codeunits | Yes | No |
| Queries | No | Yes: Read-only |
For more information about the difference between these protocols, see Web Service Alternatives: SOAP and OData. I c cassino 2.
Page Web Services
When you expose a page as an OData web service, you can query that data to return a service metadata (EDMX) document, an AtomPub document, or a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) document. You can also write back to the database if the exposed page is writable. For more information, see OData Web Services.
When you expose a page as a SOAP web service, you expose a default set of operations that you can use to manage common operations such as Create, Read, Update, and Delete. Page-based web services offer built-in optimistic concurrency management. Each operation call in a page-based web service is managed as a single transaction.
For SOAP services, you can also use extension codeunits to extend the default set of operations that are available on a page. Adding an extension codeunit to a page is useful if you want to perform operations other than the standard Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations. The benefit of adding an extension codeunit to a page is that you can make the web service complete by adding operations that are logical to that service. Those operations can use the same object identification principle as the basic page operations. For an example of how to implement an extension codeunit, see Walkthrough: Creating a Web Service using Extension Codeunits (SOAP).
Codeunit Web Services
For SOAP services only, codeunit web services provide you with the most control and flexibility. When a codeunit is exposed as a web service, all functions defined in the codeunit are exposed as operations.
Query Web Services
When you expose a Dynamics NAV query as an OData web service, you can query that data to return a service metadata (EDMX) document or an AtomPub document. For more information about how to create and use Dynamics NAV queries, see Queries.
Web Services and Regional Settings
Data is formatted according to the value of the Services Language setting for the relevant Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server instance. The default value is en-us. This means that Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server interprets all incoming data as the specified culture, such as dates and amounts.
If you know that the Services Language setting is always en-us, for example, your code can be based on that assumption. V slot brackets. In a multilanguage environment, you will see more predictable transformations of data if data that is transmitted through web services is in a consistent culture.
Similarly, you can use the ServicesOptionFormat setting to specify how Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server must understand option values. If you set the ServicesOptionFormat setting to OptionString, Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server understand option values as the name of the option value, which is always en-us. If you set the setting to OptionCaption, web service data will be interpreted in the language specified by the Services Language setting.
Note
Web Services
In earlier versions of Dynamics NAV, you could enable ServicesCultureDefaultUserPersonalization on the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server instance. This was deprecated in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 in order to guarantee that web services have a consistent culture.
Web Services in Multitenant Deployments
Webservices/device
If your Dynamics NAV solution is used in a multitenant deployment architecture, you must make sure that any code that generates or consumes a web service specifies the relevant tenant. Web services are set up in the application, but typically you want to consume company-specific and tenant-specific data.
If you use the GETURL function, the generated URL will automatically apply to the user's tenant ID. For more information, see GETURL Function.
The URL for accessing a web service in a multitenant deployment must specify the tenant ID in one of two ways: As a query parameter, or as a host name. If you use host names for tenants, the host name must be specified as an alternative ID.
Webservices.sos.state.tx.us
For example, the following URL consumes the Customer ODATA web service for a specific tenant: Casino morongo rv parking.
For more information, see Multitenant Deployment Architecture.
See Also
How to: Publish a Web Service
Web Service Alternatives: SOAP and OData
SOAP Web Service URIs
How to: Use SystemService to Find Companies
Basic Page Operations
Web Services Best Practices
Configuring Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server
