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In this article, will explain about retrieving Account’s Table records from the Dataverse environment in Postman.
Pre-requisite
Follow all the steps mentioned in the article mentioned above and then follow the below steps.
Step 1
Click on the Collection … and Click on Add request to create a new Web API Request.
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Step 2
Click on Rename to change the Web API Request name.
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Renamed to Retrieve Account records.
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Step 3
Select GET Http Verb and provide the below text to get the Top 5 Account records with Name and Account Number.
{{webapiurl}}accounts?$select=name,accountnumber&$top=5
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Note: Params will be populated automatically.
Step 4
Provide the below values under Headers section.
| If-None-Match |
null |
| OData-Version |
4.0 |
| OData-MaxVersion |
4.0 |
| Content-Type |
application/json |
| Accept |
application/json |
Headers will look like below.
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Step 5
Click on Save and Send.
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You can see a message 200 OK, which means the request executed successfully and can see the account records in the Body section in JSON format.
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Hope you have followed all the steps and retrieved the Account records.
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