New Metadata Query features in Web API in Dynamics 365

Dynamics 365 is in and just like me, CRM enthusiasts all over the world are simply WOW’ed by its wonderful offerings. After all, this has been a giant leap by Microsoft and indeed a great opportunity for all consultants to me to plunge into unknown territories and conquer it.

In this blog post, I will walk you through the new Metadata Query features that has been introduced with Dynamics 365 Web API. Off late I have been developing some tools using were using the WEB API endpoint and these new additions to the WEB API will really help developers to query the metadata in a very simple way. So without wasting more time, let me straight way give you a flavor of this.

With Dynamics 365, the Web API endpoint has been upgraded to v8.2. So it would be typically in this format – /api/data/v8.2/”>https://<organizationUrl>/api/data/v8.2/

For my trial organization, below…