Standard D365 allows creating custom web services to integrate and exchange data with external applications.
Web services are provided by D365 and consumed by the external application:
The external application calls the service operation;
D365 returns the operation result in the form described in the operation response.
The web service interface consists of operations, an abstract description of the actions supported by the service, and data contracts. A data contract defines what data is serialized (turned into XML) and exchanged for each parameter or return type.
Life Sciences Supply Chain Management provides a Service history form (System administration > Periodic tasks > Service history) that stores copies of the XML code for documents exchanged via a web service interface.
The Service history form consists of the following fields:
Service name: web service name
Operation: service operation name
Log type: set to “Request” or “Response”
Created date and time: date and time of document creation
Data: XML code for the document.
The system automatically creates a new record in the Service history form and populates the relevant fields for each successfully completed service operation.
Currently, the Service history form stores the XML code for documents exchanged via DispensingServices that ensures the integration between Life Sciences for Weighing and Dispensing™ and the Life Sciences Life Sciences Weighing and Dispensing Client/Master components.