In this article, will explain about creating a record in Accounts Table in the Dataverse environment from Postman.

Will create an Account record with the below values.

Field Display Name	Field Schema Name	Data Type	Field Value
Account Name	name	Single Line of Text	Arun Potti – Microsoft
Contact Method	preferredcontactmethodcode	Choice	1 (Email)
Phone	donotphone	Boolean	true
Primary Contact	primarycontactid	Lookup (Contact)	13736f40-3955-ed11-bba2-000d3a36d83f (Provide existing contact GUID)
Last On Hold Time	lastonholdtime	Date	2022-10-26
Annual Revenue	revenue	Currency	15000000
Latitude	address1_latitude	Float	17.38714
Description	description	Multiple Lines of Text	Record created from Postman

Follow all the steps mentioned in the below article and go to Step 1.

How to setup and connect to the Dataverse environment in Postman?

Step 1: Click on the Collection … and Click on Add request to create a new Web API Request.

Step 2: Click on Rename to change the Web API Request name.

Renamed to Create Account record.

Step 3: Select POST Http Verb and provide the below text to create the Account record.

{{webapiurl}}accounts

Step 4: Provide the below values under Headers section.

If-None-Match	null
OData-Version	4.0
OData-MaxVersion	4.0
Content-Type	application/json
Accept	application/json

Headers will look likes the below.

Step 5: Click on Body, select raw and make sure that JSON has selected.

Step 6: Copy and paste the below JSON text to create Account record.

{

    “name”: “Arun Potti – Microsoft”,

    “preferredcontactmethodcode”: 2,

    “donotphone”: true,

    “primarycontactid@odata.bind”: “/contacts(13736f40-3955-ed11-bba2-000d3a36d83f)”,

    “lastonholdtime”: “2022-10-26”,

    “revenue”: 5000000,

    “address1_latitude”: 17.38714,

    “description”: “Record created from Postman”

}

Step 7: Click on Save and Send.

You can see a message 204 No Content, which means the request executed successfully and can see the Account GUID in the Headers section in the OData-EntityId key value pair in the Web API URL format.

Note: If you see 401 Unauthorized access issue on Send, then follow the below article and fix the problem and try again.

How to resolve 401 Unauthorized access issue in Postman while connecting to Dataverse?

You can check the record created information in the Power Platform Solutions or from any other Apps.

Hope you have followed all the steps and created the Account record from Postman.

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