1. 19 May 2012 Business Connectivity Services (BCS) Brett Lonsdale – Lightning Tools @brettlonsdale #SPSJHB The first ever all green SharePoint event on earth

2. Brett Lonsdale, MCTS, MCSD, MCT – Email brett@lightningtools.com – Blog www.lightningtools.com/blog – Twitter @brettlonsdale @lightningtools – LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/brettlonsdale http://www.linkedin.com/in/brettlonsdale About Me

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4. Agenda Putting BCS into use SharePoint FoundationsSharePoint Server The Services Client ServicesServer Services Business Connectivity Services Introduction What is BCS?How does it Help?

5. Office 2010 SharePoint Workspace InfoPathWordOutlook SharePoint Server External Lists Enterprise Search External Bus field Type Web Parts User Profiles What is BCS? BDC Client Runtime BDC Cache Offline Operations ECT BDC Runtime Security Solution Packaging Out of the Box UI CRM SAPSiebelLOB SPD VS SPD VS

6. What’s new? Entities become External Content Types – Now more than just a schema – ECT’s describe behavior WCF and.NET Assembly Connectors External Lists Client Runtime Read/Write Access consumes BCS Tools

7. Terminology External Content Type – Table/View etc Finder Method – Returns multiple columns/rows Specific Finder – Displays a row Action – URL and Parameters Association – Join (Relationship)

8. Problems solved by BCS Islands of data into 1 application Finance Human Resources IT Weekly Issue Tracking Meeting Extranet Collaboration Site

9. External Lists Treat External Data like SharePoint Lists Limitations include: – Workflow – RSS Feed – Item Level Permissions – Datasheet View

10. Business Data Web Parts Business Data Connectivity Web Parts – Business Data List – Related List – Item Builder – Data View Web Part

11. External Data Column Enforces consistent meta data Document Information Panel Quick Parts

12. Search Search External Data and SharePoint Content Sources Search Scope

13. User Profile Import Audience Targeting People Search My Sites

14. Client Capabilities SharePoint Workspace Outlook Office Business Parts (OBPs) – List of Items – Single Item Word Access

15. SharePoint Workspace External Data available offline in the client

16. Outlook 2010 Office Types – Posts – Events – Contacts – Tasks Sync 2-Way

17. Office Quick Parts Meta Data available throughout Word Documents

18. InfoPath Customize External Lists External Data lookup

19. Putting BCS into use SharePoint FoundationsSharePoint Server The Services Client ServicesServer Services Business Connectivity Services Introduction What is BCS?How does it Help?

20. SharePoint Designer – No code solution – Create External Content Types – Configure the connection to the Datasource – Define Methods – Simple Associations

21. Visual Studio 2010 Pro Visual Studio – Code solution – Mashups of Datasources – Complex Associations – Output a.NET Assembly

22. Putting BCS into use SharePoint FoundationsSharePoint Server The Services Client ServicesServer Services Business Connectivity Services Introduction What is BCS?How does it Help?

23. @LightningTools @BrettLonsdale