If you want to know what OData endpoints are available in your Finance and Operations environment, or want to query a specific entity to get the data, you can simply browse using a web browser. OData provides a simple query format that we can use to browse the resources using a web browser. The following table describes a few basic query formats for accessing OData resources and entity data:

The OData protocol supports many advanced filtering and querying options on entities, such as $filter, $count, $orderby, $skip, $top, $expand, and $select. Many built-in operators are available to $filter data, such as equals, not equals, greater than or equal to, less than, less than or equal to, and, or, not, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.