Microsoft Dynamics Nav ReadMultiple sorting records by specific column

Question

I use ReadMultiple function to retrieve filtered data from Navision service as below.

var customers = postedInvService.ReadMultiple(filtercustomers.ToArray(), CustomerParams.bookmarkKey, -10);

This works fine. But my requirement is to first sort from a specific column and get the records. How to give the specific column in order to sort records?

Answer 1

There three different approaches to solve that problem.

1. With the SOAP Web Service and setSize = 0 you get the entire set of results. You can sort the result with LINQ . E. g.

    var result = from serviceInvoice in postedInvService.ReadMultiple(filtercustomers.ToArray(), null, 0) orderby serviceInvoice.No select serviceInvoice; 

2. In the Dynamics NAV Development Environment it is also possible to create a new Page have Fields and Sorting (Property SourceTableView ) how it is supposed to be.

3. Since Dynamics NAV 2013 Pages can also be fetchef from the OData Web Service which support server side sorting and filtering . Eg http://localhost:7048/DynamicsNAV90/OData/Company('CRONUS%20International%20Ltd.')/postedInvService?$orderby=PostingDate