Business Connectivity Services

Business Connectivity Services External List Validation

Business Connectivity Services External List validation cannot be performed out of the box with Microsoft SharePoint or Microsoft InfoPath. In…

SharePoint Framework SPFx Client Side Web Part–Data Viewer

Lightning Tools have been busy building a Client Side Web Part under the new development model (SharePoint Framework SPFx). Apart…

SharePoint 2016 Chart

SharePoint 2016 Chart Microsoft deprecated the out-of-the-box SharePoint Chart Web Part prior to the release of SharePoint 2013, and in…

SharePoint Online OData BCS

Ever since the launch of SharePoint 2013, Business Connectivity Services supports connections to OData. OData is especially useful within a…

Business Connectivity Services

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) is still a great addition to any version of SharePoint On-Premises and also SharePoint Online. Business…

SharePoint Data Integration

Do you need to integrate external data within your SharePoint environment easily? The Lightning Tools Data Viewer Web Part for…

Testing BCS Models is boring!

For nearly 10 years, Lightning Tools has made building External Content Types (or Application Definition Files as they were once…

Oracle and SharePoint

BCS Meta Man enables you to create a BDC Model file for Oracle and other External Data Sources within just…

Office 365 Business Connectivity Services

Business Connectivity Services has been available for Microsoft SharePoint On-Premises for the last three versions of SharePoint since it was…

Business Connectivity Services: End User Implications; Part Three: External Content Type Authorisation Errors

Introduction In the first part of this article we covered implications of external system throttling thresholds for users of Business…

Finding External Lists using Windows PowerShell®

This blog post provides sample Windows PowerShell® scripts that displays information on external lists in your Microsoft SharePoint® on-premises environments…

Business Connectivity Services: End User Implications – Part two: Changing External System Throttling

Introduction In the first part of this article we covered implications of external system throttling thresholds for users of Business…