{"id":21392,"date":"2021-02-19T15:30:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T13:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.triangle.es\/how-to-use-an-api-in-dynamics-365-business-central\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T11:22:35","slug":"how-to-use-an-api-in-dynamics-365-business-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triangle.desarrollobirdcom.es\/en\/sin-categorizar\/how-to-use-an-api-in-dynamics-365-business-central\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use an API in Dynamics 365 Business Central?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In basic terms, APIs just allow applications to communicate with each other. When people talk about “API”, they sometimes generalize and really mean “a publicly available web-based API that returns data, probably in JSON or XML”<\/strong>. The API is not the database, or even the server, but the code that governs the access points to the server. Let’s look at it in more detail<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine the following scenario: you want to access the data or functionality of another application. Perhaps you want to extract data for analysis or use it in other software<\/strong>. Then you would have to find a way to import that spreadsheet into your application; and, even if you stored it in a database, the data would become out of date very quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be better and easier to have a way to query the application for that data, so that you could view it or use it in your own application automatically. In this way, it would be kept up to date automatically<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An API makes it easy for a different application to provide functionality or access to the data<\/strong>, so the data can be included in different applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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