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Custom BCS Connector Incremental crawl not working with AssociationNavigator

I created a custom BCS connector in SharePoint 2013. I need to use the changelog approach for incremental crawling. Since I am crawling the file system like data source I am using AssociationNavigator ...
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BCS create an item returns: The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error

I am using a SAP web service and I am using BCS to get the external data. However, when I try to create a new item via code I get this error: Stack trace: The remote server returned an error: (500) ...
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How to conect sharepoint 2013 BCS with MySQL?

How to connect sharepoint BCS with MySQL? I try to connect BD MySQL from BCS at SharePoint Online.
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BCS external content type ReadList fails with InvalidMetadataObjectException

I have create a BDC model with a .Net assembly linking to a LOB system. Checking the model in Visual Studio is all good. I upload the solution to SharePoint 2013 Enterprise and create a new external ...
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create custom BCS connector

What are the steps to create a custom bcs connector? I have a ftp location where the data gets updated every week. So I want to write a bcs connector which will connect to data source with the ...
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Export(or map) List data to external MSSQL table

There are many references about External Lists, where you make a Sharepoint list from SQL database table. In my case, I need to do the opposite - I have SharePoint list, and I want to map it to an ...
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How to create a External Content Type equivalent to a Document Set?

I'd like to create an External Content Type either inheriting from or equivalent to a Document Set. I'm not finding any good examples and Document Sets are derived from folders, so the API must be ...
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Search in Custom indexing connector with AttachmentAssociator property in AssociationNavigator

I have a custom indexing connector with Entities associated via AssociationNavigator method. In order for Search (of SharePoint 2013) to crawl the associated entity, we need to set either the '...
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How to reference columns in External list in Sharepoint

I have two external lists: (Parents, Students). I need to display Parents Name in Students List as a Dropdown field. And if I save the student form, ParentID should be stored in DB. How can I ...
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create parent/child relationship in sharepoint BCS using WCF programmatically

I have two Parent/Child tables in SQL Server and I would like to expose them to sharepoint by using BCS and display the results in a web part as parent/child relationship using a treeview. BCS ...
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Get Items from View of an Extrenal List(BCS List) programmatically

I have created a external content type (BCS list) in SharePoint. I am using the below code in order to get items from bcs list. SPQuery query = new SPQuery(); query.Query = "<Where><...
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Show related entities in FAST search results

I've successfully created a .net assembly BCS to crawl external data in my enviorment. The BCS include an AssociationNavigator to crawl related entities based on foreign key. When i perform a crawl ...