What Are Bound Actions In Business Central APIs

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Bound actions in Business Central allow users to perform custom business logic within the application through APIs.
These actions are linked to specific data sets, such as sales orders, and can be used to automate processes and integrate Business Central with other applications.
Users can find a list of available bound actions by searching for "[ServiceEnabled]" in the BC repository called "ALAppExtensions" on GitHub.
Bound actions can be utilized through Power Platform and Postman, where users can make POST requests to trigger the actions.
Custom bound actions can be created by following a specific structure, including setting the [ServiceEnabled] attribute and defining the procedure with "var actionContext: WebServiceActionContext" as the parameter.
When using custom APIs with bound actions, users must build the endpoint structure correctly to interact with specific entities and records.
Bound actions are bound to a specific entity and record, and running a request without specifying an ID will result in an error.
More information on creating and interacting with OData V4 Bound Actions in Business Central can be found in Microsoft's documentation.

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