SharePoint Series / InfoPath BDC Creator - Open Existing BDC Files

carloshm — Thu, 24 May 2007 01:36:00 GMT

Hi,

One of the most interesting things of the InfoPath BDC Creator is the ability to edit your own files, in order to change some elements or add new sections, etc.

This can be achieved by adding the necessary Processing Instruction in order to open with InfoPath based on the Tool template.

If you have the Tool in a disk location, you will need to change the href to point to that location. Open the xml with notepad, delete any PI (<?*****?>) and add the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?mso-infoPathSolution solutionVersion="0.1.0.91" productVersion="12.0.0" PIVersion="1.0.0.0" href="file:///C:\path\InfoPath%20BDC%20Creator.xsn" name="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:InfoPath-BDC-Creator:http---schemas-microsoft-com-office-2006-03-BusinessDataCatalog" language="es-ES" ?><?mso-application progid="InfoPath.Document" versionProgid="InfoPath.Document.2"?>

(the language will vary based on your current language. es-ES for Spain)

On the other hand if you have published the Template into a forms library, the header of the file will look like this one:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?mso-infoPathSolution solutionVersion="0.1.0.94" productVersion="12.0.0" PIVersion="1.0.0.0" href="http://serverpath/Forms/template.xsn" name="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:formularios:http---schemas-microsoft-com-office-2006-03-BusinessDataCatalog" language="es-ES" ?><?mso-application progid="InfoPath.Document" versionProgid="InfoPath.Document.2"?>

(I'll talk about relink functionality in other entry)

This can allow us to create a BDC Library in order to store and manage BDC versioning files, in the Central Administration Site. A nice feature would be to create a BDC Library with a custom action in order to deploy the selected file into Business Data Catalog, and manage with a workflow which ones are actually deployed, and marked as metadata of the file.

I have tested it with the MSDN AdventureWorksDW SQL Server, AdventureWorks2000 PassThrough Metadata Sample , SampleWebService Metadata here is a screenshot:

You may experience that the InfoPath is a bit slow, as the whole file renders. And I’m still checking the AmazonSample.

Enjoy!

Microsoft SharedView Beta

carloshm — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:39:00 GMT

Hi,

Living in the IW World, when I read time ago about Tahiti project, Tahoe (SharePoint v1 CodeName) came to my mind... Tahiti is now SharedView Live Project.

http://get.live.com/betas/sharedview_betas

The installation is quite fast and easy (tested in Vista and XPSP2).

You get the product and several addins (Windows Live, Word, etc.)

You sign in with windows Live Id
Register (Name and email)
Send and invitation to start a session

I really like the top bar with the menu. When you start a session, you receive a message in order to accept the request. You can share an application or whatever you want, and it works really well.

Mini-Groove_LiveMeeting-adBased :) you should try it.

Viva Piñata!

Imagine Think Create Share : Betas

SharePoint Series / InfoPath BDC Creator - Open Existing BDC Files

Microsoft SharedView Beta