journal resource type

Represents a journal in Business Central.

Note

For information about enabling APIs for Business Central see Enabling the APIs for Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Methods

Method Return Type Description
GET journal journal Gets a journal object.
DELETE journal none Deletes a journal object.
POST journal journal Creates a journal object.
PATCH journal journal Updates a journal object.

Bound Actions

The journal resource type offers a bound action called post which posts the corresponding journal batch. This is illustrated in the following example: POST https://<server address>:<server API port>/<server instance name>/api/v2.0/companies({id})/journals({id})/Microsoft.NAV.post

The response has no content; the response code is 204.

Navigation Return Type Description
journalLines journalLines Gets the journallines of the journal.

Properties

Property Type Description
id GUID The unique ID of the journal. Non-editable.
code string The code of the journal.
displayName string Specifies the journal's name. This name will appear on all sales documents for the journal.
templateDisplayName string
lastModifiedDateTime datetime The last datetime the journal was modified. Read-Only.
balancingAccountId GUID The balancing G/L Account ID.
balancingAccountNumber string The balancing G/L Account number.

JSON representation

Here is a JSON representation of the journal resource.

{
    "id": "GUID",
    "code": "string",
    "displayName": "string",
    "templateDisplayName": "string",
    "lastModifiedDateTime": "datetime",
    "balancingAccountId": "GUID",
    "balancingAccountNumber": "string"
}

GET journal
DELETE journal
POST journal
PATCH journal