In the last post , we covered how to use the out of box SharePoint Workflow activities to work with an External List. In that post, I mentioned that every time you read a column, it will execute both the Read List method (Finder) and the Read Item method...

The BCS Team Channel has a new video in which we show you how in just a few minutes you can create an External Content Type using SharePoint Designer. In this video we use the database connector so be sure to subscribe to the channel to be the first to...

When a user takes an external list offline to either SharePoint Workspace or Outlook, by default the user gets a dialog box like this one. To take the external list offline successfully, the user has to click on the Install button, which means that he...

Hi, my name is JD Klaka, a test lead on the BCS team. I have worked on both SharePoint Workflow and BCS, and I love solving user scenarios by combining features and learning more about SharePoint. In this series, I will show how workflow and BCS can be...

This post serves as a follow-up to Juan’s 11/19 posting entitled The Notion of Associations and the External Item Picker . This posting will focus primarily on tooling these External Content Type (ECT) associations using SharePoint Designer (SPD) 2010...

Todd Baginski has a great series of how-to posts that demonstrate multiple capabilities of Business Connectivity Services. These are the posts on Todd’s blog so far: HOW TO: Programmatically create a SharePoint 2010 External Content Type This blog post...