Custom connectors are amazing to consume external APIs in Canvas Apps or Power Automate Flows. But what are you doing, when the external API response does not fit for you? To be honest, this week I had the same issue with an own API. I set up my custom connector and everything was fine. The connector worked as expected and my operation provided a response. So far so good… But, on the second look, I found out my response won’t…
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Power Apps are amazing! Any Citizen Developer can digitalise fantastic processes if they have the APIs they need. In my session, I show Pro-Developers tricks for providing missing APIs in Azure. Azure Logic Apps, for example, help me to setup quickly and with almost with no code such missing APIs. But the complexity increases mostly during development. A single Azure Logic App suddenly grows into 10 or 20. As a consequence, my Power App has 20 custom connectors. This is…
Custom Connectors and APIs are a pleasure for Power Apps. I can access my needed data, the setup is very fast, and finally I can use the methods of my connector from my Power App. This works fine, except when my API call fails. How can I handle such errors in my PowerApps? Is there something like a Try-Catch-Block? To be honest, it took me a while to find a setup that works for me. So let me first explain…
Yes, uploading a file from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to a Web API sounds easy because Microsoft AL provides all these new and cool objects like JsonObject, HttpRequest, HttpResponse and HttpClient. But sometimes the devil is in the detail…“How-to setup the corret HttpRequest message with all the needed HttpHeaders and how-to add the file content?” Swagger “Web API” Definition Good news, my Web API provide a Swagger definition. Now I see what is needed. Swagger-UI visualization display the API…
This open source library uses the Azure Blob Service from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to access your storage account, containers and blobs. See also here: Blob Service REST API Disclaimer: …please keep in mind, this example does not cover every aspects and is provided “AS IS”. Feel free to improve, contribute, use this API as an inspiration or contact me, if you have some ideas 😉 Authentication In each scenario, authentication is in my opinion the hardest challenge. Azure Blob Service API is an important service…
My example invoke an Azure IoT Hub Device Method from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Required information to send a message to from IoT Hub to the IoT Device endpoint are: IoT Hub Uri IoT Device Id IoT Hub SaS Token for authorization A device method will be invoked by calling the method on the Device Twin by using this Url: (API Documentation – Invoke Device Method) The message content is Json. Key methodName specify the called method and payload contains the data (parameters) for…
IoT is an important part of our current technology. With Azure IoT Hub we are able to start as quick as possible. This platform allows to connect, configure and manage IoT Devices, IoT Edge Devices, Device Twins, Configurations and much more. My example show the integration of IoT Hub functionality in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central by using the IoT Hub Rest API. Well you might do this in CAL or C/Side, but I want to show the future and with MSDyn365BC I use the new…