Thursday 17 May 2012

create external content type sharepoint 2010

Step 1)  Open  site in  Sharepoint Designer

Step 2) Click on External Content Type
      Change Name --> customers
         Display Name also   same
Office Item TYpe --> Generic List
Offline Sync for external list --> Enabled

Step 3)  Click on "Click here to discover external ...."

Click on "Add Connection" button --> select SQL-server from combo box

enter   database server name, db name  as shown below
Expand on Tables 
Select Customers table
Right click on Customers Table as shown below 
click on "Create All Operations"


Click on Next>> following screen will appear
In This CustomerID is  Primary of the Table Customer , so select "Show in Picker"(based on this primary key rows will be updated/deleted etc.,).

CLick Next>>  (No filter parameters)--> click FINISH
Following screen comes Click on Save button
Note: right side shows "External Content Type Operations", because user selected all operations
means get all,read one/item, insert,update,&delete
Click on Save button -->  and then click on External Content Type
following screen will appear


Now Goto  Browser  click on "Site Actions"--> "More Options" --> select "List" --> select "External List"
as shown below


                Then click on "Create" button(right side) following screen will appear
enter some name here mycustomerexternal, desc etc.,



click on External content type as shown figure,  following screen will appear
select "customer" external type  --> click on OK.  following screen will come

Click on Create button

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