Represents a journal in Business Central.
Note
For information about enabling APIs for Business Central see Enabling the APIs for Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Methods
| Method | Return Type | Description | 
|---|---|---|
| GET journal | journal | Gets a journal object. | 
| DELETE journal | none | Deletes a journal object. | 
| POST journal | journal | Creates a journal object. | 
| PATCH journal | journal | Updates a journal object. | 
Bound actions
The journal resource type offers a bound action called post which posts the corresponding journal batch.
This is illustrated in the following example:
POST https://<server address>:<server API port>/<server instance name>/api/v2.0/companies({id})/journals({id})/Microsoft.NAV.post
The response has no content; the response code is 204.
Navigation
| Navigation | Return Type | Description | 
|---|---|---|
| journalLines | journalLines | Gets the journallines of the journal. | 
Properties
| Property | Type | Description | 
|---|---|---|
| id | GUID | The unique ID of the journal. Non-editable. | 
| code | string | The code of the journal. | 
| displayName | string | Specifies the journal's name. This name will appear on all sales documents for the journal. | 
| templateDisplayName | string | |
| lastModifiedDateTime | datetime | The last datetime the journal was modified. Read-Only. | 
| balancingAccountId | GUID | The balancing G/L Account ID. | 
| balancingAccountNumber | string | The balancing G/L Account number. | 
JSON representation
Here's a JSON representation of the journal resource.
{
    "id": "GUID",
    "code": "string",
    "displayName": "string",
    "templateDisplayName": "string",
    "lastModifiedDateTime": "datetime",
    "balancingAccountId": "GUID",
    "balancingAccountNumber": "string"
}