Web Integration - Technical Notes

Technical notes for troubleshooting and support of the website connector.

Character sets on SOAP calls

SOAP endpoints will error with special characters when called. Examples include & < > etc.

For examples:

ws:Sell_to_Address </ws:Sell_to_Address>

SOAP doesn’t accept the “&” so it should be escaped as “&”:

ws:Sell_to_Address </ws:Sell_to_Address>

Either the website front end needs to limit the character set for data entry, or convert special characters when making the call to Business Central.

The list of character sets and translations can be found here: List of XML and HTML character entity references