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Field Name

Field Type

Description

Label*

Default ValueDynamics 365 Finance and SCM Read
ExampleFinance and SCM Read

String

Specify a unique name for the Snap. You can modify this to be more specific, especially if you have more than one of the same Snap in your pipeline.

Entity*

Default Value: N/A
Example: People

String/Expression

Specify the OData entity object from which you want to read the records.

Primary key

Use this field set to specify the primary key that uniqely identifies the rows.

Key

Default Value: N/A
ExamplePartyNumber

String/Expression

Specify or select the primary key from which you want to read the record.

  • More than one primary key can exist for an Entity.

  • Ensure that you provide key-value pairs for the primary keys, which are associated with a specific entity. If you don’t, the Snap fails. For example, if you have four Primary keys in an entity, then you must pass the value for every field to fetch the results. If you use only one of the primary keys, the Snap fails.

Value

Default Value: N/A
Example0000032

String/Expression

Specify the value of the key from which you want to read the record.

Cross Companycompany

Default ValueDeselected

Expression/Checkbox

Select this checkbox if you want to fetch data apart from your default company.

You can enable the expression for this field to use input values from the upstream Snap.

Output fields

Use this field set to fetch the fields you want the Snap to display in the output.

Output field

Default Value: N/A
ExampleName

String/Expression

Specify or select the fields that you want to display in the output.

Read related entities

Use this field set to specify the related entities of the specific entity.

Read related entity

Default Value: N/A
ExamplePersonAddresses($select=State)

String/Expression

Specify or select the numerous related entities that you want to display in the output in addition to the fields in the Output fields.

Page size

Default Value1000
Example2000

Integer/Expression

Specify the number of records you want to fetch per page size quickly for large datasets.

Start page number

Default Value1
Example10

Integer/Expression

Specify the page number from which the loading of records should begin till the last record or load until the value specified in the Max page number field.

Max page number

Default Value0
Example10

Integer/Expression

Specify the page number after which the Snap should stop loading.

The value of '0' reads all the pages. If you do not provide any value in this field, the default value (0) is used.

Timeout (seconds)

 

Default Value300
Example: 100

Integer

Specify the timeout to determine whether the connection is alive and also the timeout when waiting for response through a socket.

Number of retries

Default Value0
Example5

Integer/Expression

Specify the maximum number of retry attempts in case of failures.

The number of retries are disabled if the value is 0.

Retry interval (seconds)

Default Value1
Example5

Integer/Expression

Specify the amount of time in seconds between retry attempts.

HTTP header

Use this field set to define custom headers in the form of HTTP key-value pairs to pass to the Dynamics 365 instance.

Key

Default Value: N/A
ExampleAccept

String/Expression

Specify the key for the HTTP header.

Value

Default Value: N/A
Exampleapplication/json;odata.metadata=full

String/Expression

Specify the value for the HTTP header.

Snap Execution

Default ValueExecute only
Example: Validate & Execute

Dropdown list

Select one of the following three modes in which the Snap executes:

  • Validate & Execute: Performs limited execution of the Snap, and generates a data preview during pipeline validation. Subsequently, performs full execution of the Snap (unlimited records) during pipeline runtime.

  • Execute only: Performs full execution of the Snap during pipeline execution without generating preview data.

  • Disabled: Disables the Snap and all Snaps that are downstream from it.

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