Customize Business Central webhook payload

Business Central/NAV Developers Forum
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Hi

I am currently working on integrating Business Central with our upcomming PIM system.

The use-case is as following: When an item is updated in Business Central PIM should be notified with following attributes:

  • Update DateTime
  • Item No.
  • Old Value
  • New value

To solve this, I have been taking a look into webhooks in Business Central.

Currently I have been able to Subscribe to my own custom API but it seems like the payload is fixed and cannot be changed.

The default payload I recieve is as following:

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My Question:

Is there anyway to customize this payload, so I am able to recieve the data I need through the default webhook implementation Microsoft has made?

Otherwise I think I would have to make a custom webhook implementation and use the TaskScheduler to fire the events.

What are your thoughts on this?

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:
Nicolai Rosenkvist

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You cannot customize the payload.
With the resouce you can get the whole record and then change those fields in your other application.

3

Okay thanks.

Doesn’t really fit my use-case, since I only want to update the fields which actually got changed and not update the whole item in PIM. Of course I could do validation code on those fields in PIM.

Also I assume the flow would be as following:

BC Notifies PIM with update → PIM calls BC to get that record → PIM updates itself with data from record.

Instead of validating data from a whole record I think I will just proceed with good old httpclient and make post requests with that one field, which has been updated, based on events instead.

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Yes indeed your flow is correct.
PIM has to call BC to get the record.