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Business Data Catalogue (BDC) is a feature in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) which allows SharePoint to display data from SAP, Siebel, or other line-of-business (LOB) application via Web services or databases.

Business Data Catalogue (BDC) is a feature in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) which allows SharePoint to display data from SAP, Siebel, or other line-of-business (LOB) application via Web services or databases.

Business Data Catalog - MSDN

One of the major design goals for Business Data Catalog is to enable you to surface business data from various LOB applications such as SAP, Siebel, and databases in Office SharePoint Server 2007 with minimal coding effort. To achieve this goal, Business Data Catalog provides homogeneous access to the underlying data sources with a metadata model that provides a consistent and simplified client object model.

In SharePoint Server 2010 this is called Business Connectivity Services (BCS).

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Sharepoint BDC - Check names not working

Long story short: I have a BDC application definition in my sharepoint 2007 server, which is pulling data from a SQL server. Some of this data is the Employee Name. What i'm trying to do, is that when a user is writing a portion of the employee name…
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How to get a BDC or XML file from SQL Server to use for BDC in SharePoint?

I have a simple database for a stack management system. I want to use this database in SharePoint. So I need to use the BDC concept in SharePoint services, right? How can I generate the required form for BDC of database in my SQL Server 2008? I have…
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Download an XML BDC file from a Sharepoint server

There's a BDC xml application file in the server done by another programmer. Is there a way to download the file back to my PC? SO, I can review it.
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How do I load BDC data from a BDC URL?

I am doing this in SharePoint 2010, but wouldn't be surprised if the problem exists in SharePoint 2007 and has the same solution. I have a runtime security trimmer on my BDC data. I was expecting the security trimmer to give me URLs based off of…
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Filter SharePoint Business Data List By Audience

I'm using a Business Data List that displays a list of programs. I want to be able to filter the list based on the audience / user viewing the page. Also, does anyone know if it's possible to retrieve the audience variable from within the XSL…
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Is there any free BDC generator?

I'm looking for BDC generator, I found great one: MOSS BDC Design Studio but is there any free BDC generator?
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How to change columns in a SharePoint external content type without screwing everything up?

SCENARIO 1: I have a SQL Server stored procedure that returns rows/columns. Then in SP Designer (SPD) I create an external content type (ECT) and push to Central Admin (CA). In CA, I assign permissions. On the site, I create an External List (EL)…
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Building BDC Model using Custom Connector

I'm building a BDC Model on Sharepoint Foundation 2013, and would like to use the custom connector. Does anyone have a tutorial? even better if it can show some good practices..? Thanks!!
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Got this error when I click on my BDC service in Central Admin: The full exception text is: Access is denied

These are the steps I did under the administrator and farm account: I go to central admin -> application management -> manage service applications I click on New-> Business Data Connectivity Service I enter/select the required fields like name,…
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Changing the Sort order on BDC Actions in SharePoint

We have a number of Actions defined in a BDC (Business Data Catalog) definition in SharePoint, and need to change the order they are displayed in the UI. Within the Action defintion, there is a Position field, which we are specifying, however, the…
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SharePoint MOSS BDC for reading in opml feeds

We currently have some c# code that runs and imports data from a number of opml feeds and stores it in several sql server tables. We are working in a moss environment and I am thinking the Business Data Catalog may be able to be utilised to make…
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BDC - Problems in applications

I am getting some problems in the BDC applications. When I import some BDCs application I get an empty error and my BDC applications in Central Administration file has no Version and no data. If I try to anything on it, I get Access Denied. Help! I…
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