OData Reference

OData or Open Data Protocol is a convention that describes a set of rules in building an URL. You can have things like operators, queries, and more. I will simplify its concepts since the specification is quite <a href="https://docs.oasis-open.org/odata/odata/v4.01/cs01/part2-url-conventions/odata-v4.01-cs01-part2-url-conventions.html#sec_SystemQueryOptionfilter">dense</a>. Microsoft’s Power Platform takes full advantage of it, so we will too. I'll show you cases, especially in Power Automate, where you filter the data <strong>before</strong> it’s transmitted. If you don't understand it, the syntax can be tricky, so I want to provide some help by defining my own OData reference. For example, you can specify that you wish to only items that start with a particular set of characters or an older date than today. There is a lot to explore.