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Microsoft Business Connectivity Services (BCS) (formerly named the Business Data Catalog) provides the capability to allow data sources outside of SharePoint to be surfaced and potentially modifiable in SharePoint's List user interface. Use this tag for questions or problems related to configuration or using BCS.

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Selecting default filter

The answer is adding the following code to your model: <FilterDescriptors> <FilterDescriptor Type="Wildcard" FilterField="Name" Name="Product Name" > <Properties> <Property Name="IsDefaul …
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Selecting default filter

I have a ERP system which is linked to SharePoint via BCS. In a previous 2007 site, the BDC layer used the searchcode from the ERP system as primary key. … Can I, for instance, provide a default selection for the BCS filter, so it's default set to 'searchcode'? …
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BCS in a multi tenant scenario

Another approach would be to deploy the BCS sandboxed, so each site gets it's own BCS definition instead. … Edit 2 (and I'll create a blog post for this); you can work around the partitioned BCS approach by creating a non partitioned BCS app and including that in your proxy group. …
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BCS issue: CalculatePermissionsForCurrentThread

I have a BCS model which is causing problems in the production environment. … I am 100% sure that the BCS rights are set correctly. Perhaps they can't be read correctly or something, I'm stuck. The BCS model is a .NET assembly which uses Linq to query a SQL database. …
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BCS issue: CalculatePermissionsForCurrentThread

See http://blog.repsaj.nl/index.php/2012/04/sp2010-bcs-issue-calculatepermissionsforcurrentthread/ for more info. …
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Use custom page in _layouts for display item form

I was wondering if I could acheive the following. I have a custom application page living in _layouts which displays an entity based upon an external content type item. For external lists using this …
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Is it possible to filter a BCS list using a site's name?

Yeah there is, I'm actually filtering BCS lists based upon a property in the site's propertybag, but you can really use any variable you want. … But with some tutorials on using .NET classes for BCS, you'll get there I'm sure. …
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ValidateEntitySecurity failed on multitenant BSC installation

I've got a multitenant BCS service setup. It all seems to work; I've imported my model and it properly lists the entities in the model. … But I've checked the permissions in the BCS config, even granted full rights to everyone just to be sure. So on all the places I know I can configure things, I did. …
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ValidateEntitySecurity failed on multitenant BSC installation

I do have a new problem though: it seems BCS models of type DotNetAssembly aren't allowed in a partitioned BCS service. Crap. …
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Paging and sorting with BCS - Is it really possible?

My solution performs sorting, but only on the items retrieved from BCS (which are paginated). … So first it's retrieving items from my BCS connector, which only returns like 30 records, and THEN it sorts those records. Kind of useless. …
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SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization: BCS + WCF

You could reuse that some code (a wrapper class as you might call it) and provide BCS with a .NET assembly instead. Adding a second webservice will only cause delay. …
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