Chapter 7. Using Services

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Consuming the system query service
  • Consuming the system metadata service
  • Consuming an existing document service
  • Creating a document service
  • Consuming a document service
  • Using an enhanced document service
  • Creating a custom service
  • Consuming a custom service
  • Consuming an external service

Introduction

Dynamics AX provides many out of the box services—programmable objects that can be used to communicate with application components or third-party applications. In order to meet complex business requirements, the existing services can also be customized or new services can be created from scratch.

The services are divided into three categories: non-customizable built-in system services ...

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