Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Apps - Second Edition

OData services

In Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, OData services are used for integration. The OData REST endpoint exposes all the data entities that are marked as public. The IsPublic design-level property is all that it needs to determine whether the data entity needs to be exposed as the OData endpoint.

The following screenshot shows CustCustomerEntity in Visual Studio, with the IsPublic property set to Yes to expose the entity as the OData endpoint:

Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations ships more than two thousand data entities out of the box, which includes more than 1,500 public data entities.

The list of data entities is ...