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I do appreciate the fact that quite a lot of people have asked about this kind of issue before me (maybe there is a reason for that Microsoft?), but I haven't been able to figure out the solution to my problem from reading those.

I'm trying to call Dynamics 365 BC API (v.2.0) from Postman (AAD auth) and I have tried to follow the descriptions as best as I can, though they seem to be out of sync in a few places. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-develop-connect-apps

The part where I'm to to authorize and receive a token works fine, though it took some time to get it right and I had to use Fiddler to actually see the error messages. But I got it to work so Postman can now retrieve a token and store it for later use.

The part that doesn't work is the actual calls to the Dynamics BC API. I keep getting the 401 "Unauthorized", "The credentials provided are incorrect", error when I try to call Dynamics BC API using the token I retrieved.

I don't know why this happens. Maybe the app is configured wrong or maybe the URL is incorrect, I really don't get it.

I'm trying to call "https://api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/v2.0/production/api/v2.0" which I believe should give me a list of APIs available to me, but as stated above, 401.

What could be the reason for this, when I have already successfully retrieved a token from Azure?

Update 1

I was exploring the jwt token and got curious about this part, as it could be wrong, unless I'm misunderstanding the description. It says that the "iss" part of the token, should end with "/v2.0" if the token was issued by the v2.0 endpoint, and that doesn't seem to be the case here (see image).

Postman Auth URL I use is: https://login.microsoftonline.com/98...73/oauth2/v2.0/authorize

Postman Access Token URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/98...73/oauth2/v2.0/token

So maybe there is an issue here?

Update 2

OK, so I changed the scope in Postman to the same as you, and now I get the prompt to grant access to the app by the name I created, so that is good. As far as I recall, this about the scope is not mentioned in the guide article, while Postman demands a scope so I created one and used that - obviously that is not correct which ought to be updated in that guide article (Microsoft).

However, I'm still getting an odd response, when I try to retrieve the available APIs.

I am looking for a simple way to connect to an Azure Odata data store (specifically Dynamics365 for Finance and Operations) in a .NET console application (no browser involved) and retrieve odata json. I searched all over MS docs and finally found this:

Hi I am trying to switch the active business process on a record. Basically, I have two business process flows and I want to move a record (lead) to the second business process flow, it is currently on the first business process flow.

I have tried utilizing the SetProcess Action. The request is successful (204) but it is not updating the Business Process Flow on the record to the correct one.

Here is the request I am sending:

Dynamics 365 is clearly a huge topic and I know very little about it.

If I want to access a handful of web service end-points in D356 using an automated process, is there an alternative to AAD/OAuth for authentication? The examples that I've encountered so far haven't addressed automated/non-interactive D365 API access.

This question is similar to mine, however the accepted solution (Basic Auth/Web Service Access Key) is going away soon. It's also referring to a 'Connect App', and I'm thinking I'd rather hit an API directly.

Context: Currently, I have an automated one-way sync to an on-prem NAV DB that updates a handful of database tables directly when changes exist - it's not complicated. I need re-implement it once my IT department has migrated their NAV DB to MS Dynamics 360.

I understand that BC tables/objects can be exposed as web service end-points, and I anticipate having web-api access (OData) to the tables that I am currently updating directly.

However, authentication seems like it will be an issue. The D365 guidence seems to be OAuth (Authorization Code Grant), which doesn't immediately lend itself to automated processes given its interactive nature. Are there alternatives?

In my Hololens 2 app I want to add a context menu to each hologram that the user can open by touching the hologram for 2 seconds. It should basically look like this:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/mixed-reality/guides/media/touch-dwell-animation.gif

(Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/mixed-reality/guides/authoring-gestures-hl2)

But I cannot find any code examples for this. Do you have any ideas what I need to add for this or any piece of documentation?

I need to add a new "auto-number" field to an entity in Dynamics365 CE.

Thanks to Jonas Rapp's excellent XrmToolbox "Auto Number Manager", adding the field and defining its look is a breeze.

My challenge is: I have 100'000+ existing rows in that entity - how can I update the existing rows with the correct auto-numbering values?

I have tried it - but even if I make the "auto-number" field "required", creating it doesn't fill the values for the existing rows. I would have hoped this would be done automagically - as with a "computed column" or a new "not null" column with a default value n SQL Server.

Any easy ways of doing this? Can I somehow updates those existing rows via a workflow, or via the REST API ?

I am trying to create a system view in Dynamics. I have followed the steps they share in Microsoft foro here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customerengagement/on-premises/customize/create-edit-dashboards#create-a-new-dashboard

Create a new dashboard

1. Open solution explorer, and then select Components > Dashboards.

2. Select New, choose a layout, and then select Create.

3. LIn the Dashboard: New dialog box enter a name for the dashboard.

4. Select one of the component areas and then select the icon for a chart or a list.

5. You can have up to six components in the dashboard.

6. When you are finished adding components to your dashboard, select Save and then Publish.

Issue is that once is plublished and saved, it does not appear on the dropdown list of my systems dashboards. Any tip why?

Thanks,

I've been looking for an approach to remove unwanted values from a views grid column filtering dropdown but I'm not sure if its even possible.

A specific view in our app only displays results where the column will contain 5 values, however the column option set has 20+. Is it possible to remove the unwanted 15 values from being displayed when the view's filter by function is used?

This documentation does not mention any way the values can be hidden.

I have added a web resource to a view column before, to change text values into an image, however I don't think this is an applicable place to add a script to hide filter by values.

I have developed plugins so not against using this medium if the approach works and does not introduce a performance hit.

Is there a way to enable change tracking for couple of entities programmatically? I could not find any api in Dataverse which can help to do this.