Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed

Chapter 20. External Content Types and External Lists (BCS)

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Business Connectivity Services (BCS) Overview

• Introducing External Content Types (ECTs) and External Lists

• BCS Functional Differences

• Business Processes and Data Validation

• BCS Service Application

• Secure Store Service Application

• Configuring BCS Data Sources: SharePoint Designer

• Connecting to an SQL Data Source

• Associations in External Lists

• Office Integration

• Profile Pages and Search

• Exporting External Content Types

• Troubleshooting External Lists

In this chapter you discover how to take advantage of external content types (ECTs) and External Lists to extend on data source integration discussed in Chapter 19, “Configuring External Data Sources ...