Create a record in Microsoft Dataverse using the Web API

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Verified steps

  1. Authenticate using OAuth 2.0 (client credentials or user delegated flow) against Microsoft Entra ID to obtain a bearer token scoped to https://<org>.crm.dynamics.com/.
  2. Identify the entity set name for the target table by querying the metadata: GET https://<org>.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.2/EntityDefinitions?$select=LogicalName,EntitySetName or consult the Dataverse table reference.
  3. Send a POST request to https://<org>.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.2/<entitySetName> with Content-Type: application/json and a JSON body containing the field values using logical names (e.g., 'name', 'emailaddress1').
  4. The response on success is HTTP 204 with an OData-EntityId header containing the URL (and embedded GUID) of the newly created record.
  5. To return the created record in the response body, add the Prefer: return=representation header and a $select query parameter to the POST URL.
  6. Link the new record to an existing record at create time using navigation property syntax in the body: "<navigationProperty>@odata.bind": "/entitySetName(guid)".

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