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BCS Meta Man Tutorials

The below BCS Meta Man Tutorials guide you through some of the most common features of BCS Meta Man and Business Connectivity Services.

Using the links below, navigate to videos to see how you can produce SharePoint BCS External Content Types for data sources such as Microsoft SQL, OData, Oracle, ODBC, Salesforce.com, and Dynamics CRM Online.

Use BCS Meta Man to Create an External Content Type

Within this tutorial, we use BCS Meta Man to create an External Content Type for SharePoint BCS. We go through building Entities with multiple Finder Methods, Custom Actions, Associations, and discuss Authentication.

Building a SharePoint External Data Columns

Within this tutorial we learn how to build SharePoint External Data Columns to allow the lookup of external data from an external data source.

Creating a SharePoint External List

Within this tutorial we learn how to build and customize a SharePoint External list to display and allow the editing of external data.

SharePoint Online OData BCS

Use BCS Meta Man to create a connection to an OData data source, and deploy the External Content Type to SharePoint Online.