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How to I get an External List in Datasheet View? I have a List, whereby I have Looked up a Column from an External List. The column appears as readonly in Datasheet View, but behaves normally using the normal view.

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This is one of the limitations of an external list; there is no way to get a datasheet view with the built in functionality of SharePoint.

Other limitations are quite well ennumerated on this blog post. As you can see, there are quite a few of them and it is worth bearing these in mind when designing solutions with the Business Connectivity Services.

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  • Any possibility of using Javascript to solve?
    – neo269
    Commented Aug 20, 2012 at 9:53
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    I don't think so, with the standard external list. There is a third party web part available from layer2 that claims to allow it, but I haven't tried this out yet.
    – TZHX
    Commented Aug 20, 2012 at 10:24

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