SOAP Web Services
SOAP web services enable full flexibility for building operation-centric services. They provide industry-standard interoperability and channel and host pluggability.
You can use SOAP to interact with page or codeunit web services in Business Central .
Note
Support for the SOAP protocol is being deprecated in Business Central and will be removed in the future. Start planning to move your solutions to use either OData or APIs pages/queries. The article Deprecated Features in the Platform - Clients, Server, and Database will include a section of which release this will happen in when a timeline is available for the removal.
Note
Instead of exposing UI pages as web service endpoints, use API pages or API queries because they've been optimized for this scenario. For more information, see Writing efficient Web Services
| To | See |
|---|---|
| Review the different options for creating URIs to interact with SOAP web services. | SOAP Web Service URIs |
| Review the set of operations that are available when a page is exposed as a web service. | Basic Page Operations |
| Learn how to write code that provides a list of existing companies in a Business Central database. | Using SystemService to Find Companies |
| Ensure that field values are updated from web services. | Using Properties to Indicate Field Value Presence |
Related information
Web service performance
Troubleshoot web service errors
Web service telemetry
Basic Page Operations (for SOAP webservices)