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Everything You Need to Know about BDC: Part 8 of 8 | SharePoint Magazine — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:21:06 +0000

[...] and profile, to the BDC object model in details. We also touched the surface of BDC actions in Part 4 and Part 5. As promised, we’ll dedicate this final article to actions. We’ll explain what the [...]

By: Iraj

Iraj — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:17:21 +0000

Hi Randy,
Very useful articles. I have one problem however with relating the BDC web parts. Everything works fine but I can not select in my list web part. The selection readio buttons show up and everything but when I click to select anything the page reloads with nothing selected. This happens even when I use the AdventureWorks sample ADF files. I have setup the user permissions on the application and each entity with full permissions just to make sure.
I would appreciate any help or suggestion you can give me.
Thanks.

By: Angela French

Angela French — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:54:40 +0000

Randy, thanks for this series of articles; I could not have gotten as far as I have without them in trying to consume an external web service in a business data column. However, I have still not been able to figure out how to pass two parameters to the service. You explain how to do a 1:1 mapping, but my situation is a bit more complex than that. In the browse dialog box, my Find drop down list has two items I need to associate a value with. I can't find anyway to do that. If you are able to advise, I would be grateful.

By: loop24

loop24 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:13:23 +0000

Hi Randy
Hope you can help us out here:
I have a BDC Related List (Machines) web part which is connected to a BDC list webpart (Customers). When I select a Customer and then a machine, the Data Item Webparts on the page show the Details (Customer details, Machine Details) of the entry.
But then, if I search again for a new customer and select it, the Machine Detail Webpart still shows the “old” information of the previously selected entry.
So is there any way to reset for example alle the “Data Item”-Webparts on a page? Or could we send a default Parameter to alle tehe webparts on a page on postback (clicking on the Searchbutton…)?
We are going mad here with this Problem, as it is making our whole application kind of useless..

By: john137

john137 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:06:59 +0000

Yes, I agree with your words Randy. I strongly believe that the data lists are useful for telephone marketing and email marketing where we can sort and filter the content that a user needs… what do you say Randy. I appreciate that this post really useful for web data users to work on these business data lists to update their actions and events. Many thanks.

By: M00n

M00n — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:21:00 +0000

Use a version number and make sure you change it each time you make changes to the ADF file and it will overright the existing BDC when you import it:

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:schemaLocation="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/03/BusinessDataCatalog BDCMetadata.XSD"
Type="Database"
Version="1.0.0.1"
Name="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/03/BusinessDataCatalog">

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:15:24 +0000

I'd like to create a url from a business data list to open a custom aspx page. I need to add the “current user” to the querystring. Is this possible?

Thanks.

By: jabailo

jabailo — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:28:34 +0000

Thanks! I found this:

http://skew.org/xml/stylesheets/url-encode/url-...

An XSLT 1.0 template for url encode.

(Painful is right!)

I'm wondering if I can just add a reference to this xsl page on top of what Sharepoint already uses (?) so that I get access to the method/template…

By: jabailo

jabailo — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:24:34 +0000

What are my methods for maintaining state then?

A producer/consumer with an XML store?

By: Randy Williams

Randy Williams — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:39:20 +0000

What you have done seems like the best approach. Using the BDC web parts (and almost every other OOB web part), you cannot establish connections with web parts on a different page.

By: Randy Williams

Randy Williams — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:37:10 +0000

I'm pretty certain there is no support for XSLT 2.0 functions. In cases like this, I have written a custom template and execute using the . I know it's painful, but I know of no other workaround.

By: jabailo

jabailo — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:22:59 +0000

Does the Business Data List support XSLT 2.0 functions?

Specifically, I want to use the “escape-uri” function.

By: jabailo

jabailo — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:28:47 +0000

I have a Business Data List web part on my page. I edited the XSL to turn one column of values into a hyperlink to another page that hosts a Page Viewer. Now I wonder if I should have used the built in Connector technology. Can I set up a clickable row which sends that data to another web part? On another web page?

By: raj

raj — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:46:28 +0000

Is it possible to use BDC as an interface between SQL and SAP users,wherein SAP users can edit the table within SAP and then the same changes reflects in the SQL table? how to do that?

By: Bob the Sharepoint Builder

Bob the Sharepoint Builder — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:22:58 +0000

This is all sort of pointless if you REQUIRE the view to show the image (instead of showing the image icon) as well as the pertinent data.

So how would you get it to show everything? Hmm?

Also, it's a shame that web part filters can't be connected to Picture libraries. Or so it seems at first glance.

By: EWillyB

EWillyB — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:23:47 +0000

I've successfully added the ADF but cannot browse the app or any of its entities from the BD List webpart. My entities have finder methods (which work in the BDC Def Editor tool) and I have the Select in Clients & Execute perms set. My data connection properties in the ADF should permit connection as they work in other SQL Server clients.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

By: Abhijit patra

Abhijit patra — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:48:50 +0000

Hi…I am new in MOSS 2007. I am facing some problem. I want to show business data to permitted user. But here only administraor able to view these data. I have tried it with giving permission from “site settings->advanced permission” and also from “application management -> User permissions for Web application” , but result shows nothing….Please can u help me by providing some tips….

advanced thanks…
Abhijit

By: Brandt Fuchs

Brandt Fuchs — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:20:05 +0000

Randy, this is great stuff here. I've been to a SharePoint Solutions training class on BDC, and while it was helpful, I've found that I learned the most about the BDC through my own implementations. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of this series as there have already been a few things that you have clarified for me.

By: Randy Williams

Randy Williams — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:31:52 +0000

Hi Ishak. Sorry for the delayed response. I do not know of any way to easily implement grouping like what you would find within a view for a list. You could technically implement this in the custom XSLT for the business data list web part, but this would take some knowhow of the XSLT language.

By: bassi

bassi — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:36:57 +0000

I have two BDC Related List web parts A and B, connected to one BDC Related List web part C,which is connected to BDC list webpart D. When I select value in D, it in turn display some values in C,when I select in C it shows related values in A & B.
Issue is, when I select Value in D, it shows the list in C webPart with no one selected in C. But A & B shows the previous related value of selected in C web Part.
I dont want that, if there is no value selected in C, A & B should not show any value .