Dynamics 365 Business Central Create

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Overview

You can use the Dynamics 365 Business Central Create Snap to create records in the Business Central application for a specific entity.

The Business Central Create Snap does not allow upstream values for any fields (Company, Entity, etc.).

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Snap Type

The Dynamics 365 Business Central Create Snap is a Write-type Snap that creates a user in the application.

Prerequisites

None

Support for Ultra Pipelines

 Works in Ultra Pipelines. 

Limitations

  • The Business Central Create Snap supports a maximum Batch size of 100.

  • The Business Central Create, Update, and Delete Snaps do not support the respective operations for a few entities, such as Account, and display an exception when creating, updating, or deleting operations. Learn more about the API limitations: API documentation for Business Central.

Known Issues

  • Business Central metadata does not contain information about required fields. Therefore, the Mapper Snap upstream to the Business Central Create Snap does not display the mandatory fields (showing *) in the Target Schema, which is the expected behavior.

  • The Company field in the Business Central Create Snap is optional for a few entities, such as Subscriptions, and it is mandatory for the remaining entities. Therefore, if the field is left blank, the Snap displays the following error:

    Workaround: Specify the Company name for mandatory entities.

  • The Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Create Snap displays the following errors when you run the batch process with the error view enabled.

    • 500 ( Internal Server Error)

    • Socket timeout error

    • Read timed out error

    Workaround: Increase the Timeout value to 500 or more and decrease the batch size while keeping the default retry properties.

Snap Views

Type

Format

Number of Views

Examples of Upstream and Downstream Snaps

Description

Type

Format

Number of Views

Examples of Upstream and Downstream Snaps

Description

Input 

Document

 

  • Min: 1

  • Max: 1

  • Mapper

Requires user data as a JSON document.

Output

Document

 

  • Min: 1

  • Max: 1

  • Mapper

  • Copy

  • Union

Writes the new user information for an entity.

Error

Error handling is a generic way to handle errors without losing data or failing the Snap execution. You can handle the errors that the Snap might encounter when running the pipeline by choosing one of the following options from the When errors occur list under the Views tab:

  • Stop pipeline Execution: Stops the current pipeline execution if the Snap encounters an error.

  • Discard Error Data and Continue: Ignores the error, discards that record, and continues with the remaining records.

  • Route Error Data to Error View: Routes the error data to an error view without stopping the Snap execution.

Learn more about Error handling in Pipelines.

Snap Settings

  • Asterisk ( * ): Indicates a mandatory field.

  • Suggestion icon (): Indicates a list that is dynamically populated based on the configuration.

  • Expression icon ( ): Indicates the value is an expression (if enabled) or a static value (if disabled). Learn more about Using Expressions in SnapLogic.

  • Add icon ( ): Indicates that you can add fields to the field set.

  • Remove icon ( ): Indicates that you can remove fields from the field set.

  • Upload icon ( ): Indicates that you can upload files.

Field Name

Field Type

Description

Field Name

Field Type

Description

Label*

 

Default Value: Business Central Create
Example: BC Create

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.

 

Company

Default Value: N/A
Example: My Company

String/Expression/Suggestion

Specify the company registered with the Business Central application.

Entity*

 

Default Value: N/A
Example: employees

String/Expression/Suggestion

Specify the OData entity object.

Batch type

Default Value: Stop-On-Error
Example: Transactional

Dropdown list

Choose the operation you want for batching, which is applicable only when the Batch size is more than 1:

  • Stop-On-Error: Sends all the records to the output view until the Snap encounters an error.

  • Transactional: Sends all the records and the records with errors to the error view when error occurs.

  • Continue-On-Error: Sends all the records except those with the error to the output view.

Batch size

 

Default Value: 100
Example: 50

Integer/Expression

Specify the batch size to create a number of users in a batch.

Timeout (seconds)

 

Default Value: 60
Example: 100

Integer/Expression

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

Number of retries

 

Default Value: 0
Example: 5

Integer/Expression

Specify the maximum number of retries to be made to receive a response.

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

Retry interval (seconds)

 

Default Value: 1
Example: 5

Integer/Expression

Specify in seconds, the time period between retry attempts.

HTTP header

Use this field set to define the HTTP key-value pairs to pass to the Dynamics 365 Business Central instance.

Key

 

Default Value: N/A
Example: Accept

String/Expression

Specify the key for the HTTP header.

Value

 

Default Value: N/A
Example: 

application/json;odata.metadata=full

String/Expression

Specify the value for the HTTP header.

Snap Execution

 

Default Value: Validate & Execute
Example: Execute only

Dropdown list

Select one of the following three Snap execution modes:

  • 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.

Troubleshooting

Error

Reason

Resolution

Error

Reason

Resolution

Number of requests exceeded the limit of 6000 over the time window of 300 seconds

More than 6000 requests were made in 300 seconds.

Decrease the batch size and retry. Learn more about the error messages: Service protection API limits.

Too many Requests - 429

Too many requests are sent to Microsoft Business Central endpoint.

All Snaps related to the Microsoft Business Central Snap include retry-after with <number of seconds> in the response header and automatically retry when they encounter a status 429 error. Wait for the retry to succeed.

REST API service endpoint returned error result: status code = 400

You typically receive this message when:

  • The value in the HTTP entity field is structured as an expression; but the expression toggle is off.

  • The value in the (single- or multiple-file-upload) File Key fields is inaccurate or does not contain expressions although the Expression toggle is enabled.

  • The value in the (single- or multiple-file-upload) File Name fields contains special characters, such as (&, ^, and %).

Check the values of Snap properties. Specifically:

  • Check whether your HTTP entity entry requires expressions. Update Snap settings as appropriate.

  • Check the value in the (single- or multiple-file-upload) File Key fields.

  • Check the value in the (single- or multiple-file-upload) Filename to be used fields.

Error 500

The Client secret or Client ID are not valid.

Generate new Client secret.

Error 401

Token is invalid.

Provide a valid token and reauthorize the account.

Examples

This example pipeline demonstrates how to use Business Central Snaps to create, read, update, and delete records in the application.

Download this pipeline.

Step 1: Configure the Mapper Snap with the different fields you want to add to the record.

Step 2: Configure the Business Central Create Snap with the Company name that is registered with the Business Central application, the Entity, and the Batch type as shown. The output shows the inserted record with an ID generated automatically.

 

Step 3: Configure the Mapper Snap with the fields that you want to update for a specific ID.

Step 4: Configure the Primary Key in the Business Central Update Snap when the ID populates in the field. On validation, the output shows the updated record.

 

Step 5: Configure the Primary Key in the Business Central Read Snap. On validation, the Snap reads the record from the application and displays the information in the output view.

 

Step 6: Configure the Primary Key in the Business Central Delete Snap when the ID populates in the field. The record is deleted on validation, and the success message is displayed in the output view.

 

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