Create and update records from Power Pages with the Web API

Once the Web API is enabled for the table and the safeAjax wrapper is in the Header, creating a record is a POST and updating one is a PATCH, both against /_api/<entity-set>:

function createRecord(entitySet, data) {
  return utilities.safeAjax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "/_api/" + entitySet,
    contentType: "application/json",
    data: JSON.stringify(data),
    success: function (res, status, xhr) {
      console.log("Created with id", xhr.getResponseHeader("entityid"));
    },
  });
}
 
function updateRecord(entitySet, id, data) {
  return utilities.safeAjax({
    type: "PATCH",
    url: "/_api/" + entitySet + "(" + id + ")",
    contentType: "application/json",
    data: JSON.stringify(data),
  });
}
 
createRecord("accounts", { name: "Axazure", address1_city: "Madrid" });

Note that the name is plural, since it’s the entity set (accounts, contacts). And you won’t find the new record’s id in the response body; it comes back in the entityid header.

If you try to read what you just created straight away, it may not be there yet. That’s the Power Pages cache, not a bug in your code.

Create and update records from Power Pages with the Web API

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