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Technical / June 10, 2014 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Kerberos is often perceived as painful to setup and hard to debug. And to be honest: in my opinion it’s not one of the most user friendly techniques out there. But once you get the hang of it, the bigger picture start becoming clear and things get easier. In this article I will explain how
Technical / June 8, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Having one of the following two problems? 1) Grouped views not working properly when you’ve selected a BCS / External data field as the group field 2) Column filtering not working properly for BCS / external data fields But these problems seem to be inconsistent, some records work and others don’t? Chances might be that
Technical / June 6, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
One of our environments is one that was upgraded from MOSS 2007. In that transition, BDC changed to BCS and we didn’t really take care of that because we weren’t using BDC that much. One of the lists got migrated and stopped working, but because it was in a dark alley on our SharePoint site,
Technical / April 19, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
This probably is the last post in my latest BCS series for now, since our project is almost finished 🙂 One of the last hurdles I had to take was an error which only occured in our production environment for some reason (I guess production and test still aren’t similar enough). It occurred when trying
Technical / April 4, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 7
Working my way through BCS, I encountered another error which seems to be pretty undocumented. It’s as follows: Error while executing web part: System.InvalidOperationException: Unable to open the specified list item. ---> Microsoft.BusinessData.Infrastructure.BdcException: The shim execution failed unexpectedly - Assembly was requested for LobSystem with Name 'Company.Projects.Contoso.BCSLobSystem', but this assembly was not returned. SystemUtility of
Technical / April 1, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
I’ve done some posts about multi-tenancy and BCS lately, but haven’t combined the two. So todays topic (and no, it’s not a joke…) will be BCS in a multi tenant environment. Mainly because you have some choices to make and I want to provide you with some input on which you might be able to
Technical / December 3, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 19
I’ve been struggling for a while to programmatically set BCS columns. Setting the column itself isn’t that hard, but it’s getting all the related fields to show data too that’s a challenge. There seems to be no out of the box method to do this, so I’ve created one myself. Without further ado, let’s get
Technical / May 19, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
We started using BCS in SP2010 to create External Content Types. This is really a powerfull system, and a huge improvement on the ‘old’ BDC approach. For a project, I needed something more then just a BCS layer to get all the data. Data is being fetched from a 3rd party backend system in which
Technical / March 24, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
I was really impressed by the new BCS stuff which I saw @ SPC2010. Offcourse, after installing the beta on my laptop, I wanted to test it out myself. So I downloaded SharePoint designer (which is pretty damn nice compared to the old one), connected to my newly created SharePoint site and clicked “External Content