Activate business connectivity services bcs and the secure store service

On the Quick start, click "Application Management". If an instance of the Business Data Connectivity Service Application that you will use for this solution is already there, you can skip the rest of this procedure.

If not, follow the rest of this procedure to create one. In the Database area, leave the pre-populated values for Database Server, Database Name, and Database authentication, which is Windows authentication recommended unless you have specific design needs to change them. If you have SQL Server database mirroring configured and you want to include the Business Data Connectivity Service database in mirroring, provide the name of the failover database server in the Failover Database Server box.

If you have not already created a new application pool for your service applications, enter a name for a new application pool in the Application pool name box, for example, "SharePointServiceApps". You can use this application pool for all your service applications. For more information on planning, creating and configuring service applications, see Manage service applications in SharePoint Select the account that you configured in the Prerequisites for deploying a Business Connectivity Services on-premises solution in the SharePoint procedure as the SharePoint products application services account in the Configurable drop down.

Create All Operations Defines a create item, delete item, read item, read list, and update item operation. Routines require specific operations. Refresh Refreshes the list of tables, views, and routines in the Data Source Explorer.

To specify the columns that you want to display from the table or view, click Next. In the Parameters Configuration dialog box, by default all columns known as Data Source Elements are selected.

To remove unnecessary columns, clear the corresponding check boxes. Consider using an SQL column alias to provide a more meaningful name or a shorter name. To select an identifier field, click and highlight a field typically a unique-valued field , and then under Properties , click Map to Identifier.

They provide useful information to confirm your actions or troubleshoot any issues. Periodically click the Errors and Warnings pane and make sure that there are no more errors or warnings. If your external content type maps to an Outlook item type, you must map one or more fields from your external content type to the Outlook item fields.

When you map an external content type, such as a Customer, to an Outlook item type, such as a Contact, you must explicitly map the individual fields in the external content type, such as Customer First Name, Customer Last Name, Customer Address, and Customer Phone, to their respective Outlook item type fields, such as a contact's FirstName, LastName, BusinessAddress, and BusinessPhone. Under Properties , next to Office property , click the down arrow.

NOTE] You do not need to map all the corresponding fields. However, the fields shown in the following table must be mapped. Unmapped fields, depending on the number, are displayed as extended properties as follows:.

The external item picker control allows users to select a field, such as an ID field or a field that has unique values, to conveniently choose an item. This control is available in SharePoint and Office products. For example, users can use this control to choose an item from an external list of customers and Word enables this control for use with content controls that are linked to external data columns.

It's a good idea to select the specific columns you want to display in the external item picker control because the default operation is to show all the columns, which in most cases, is not necessary.

NOTE] All filters that you define are displayed in the external item picker control. Although you cannot remove specific filters from the external item picker control, you can define a default filter by clicking Is Default in the Filter configuration dialog box when you are creating or modifying the filter. If you do not define a filter, an external list returns all of the data up to the Business Connectivity Services BCS throttle limit by default, 2, items or all the data that is defined in the external content type, if less than the current throttle limit.

In addition, the entire processing of the results occurs within the SharePoint product. It's a good idea to define at least one filter. Skip to content. The problem that I have seen go unanswered the most can stem from this kind of error found when using the Synchronization Manager to see what is going on during a Sync:.

Most of the time you will have a username that is being exposed through the ETC that you are mapping against, because this is typically a nvarchar or a varchar you need something equal to this on the other side.