Building Solutions With Business Connectivity Services

Steve Letford - Microsoft
ChakkaradeepChandran - Intergen
Building Business Applications using Business Connectivity Services and SharePoint Designer

Agenda
BCS Overview – (Steve)
Demo – (Chakkaradeep)
Connecting to SQL and creating an external list (Hello world)
Using an external lists and creating BCS associations
BCS integration with Office
Attaching workflows to external lists
Search

Feedback
Read/Write
Read is nice… Write back would be even more powerful
Tooling Support
Need an easier way to create, debug and maintain appdef XML files
I wish it was baked into the Platform
Wouldn’t it be nice to offline?

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Sites
Rapidly create no-code collaborative solutions
Communities
Composites
Unlock the value of your enterprise data
Content
Insights
Maintain control over end user solutions
Search

Business Connectivity Services
SharePoint
Design Tools
Office Applications
BCS Client
Dev Platform
Enterprise Search
Business Intelligence
Collaboration Social
Enterprise Content Management
SharePoint Designer
External Lists
External Content Type Repository
Visual Studio
Business Data Connectivity
Web 2.0
DB
WCF
Web Service
LOB

External Content TypeThe building block
Outlook Forms and Task Panes
SharePointWorkspace with InfoPath Forms
SharePoint External Lists
External Content Type
Customer
CustomerID
FirstName
LastName
EmailAddress
Search Results
Office
Applications
External data

Connectivity
Business Data Connectivity (BDC)
Presentation in SharePoint
Business Data Connectivity (BDC)
BDC Metadata Store
BDC Client Runtime
BDC Server Runtime
Client Data
Cache
DB
Connector
WCF/WS
Connector
.NET Assembly
Connector
Custom
Connector
Client to Backend Direct Connection
External data
Custom .NET assembly
SQL
SAP
ORACLE
Siebel

Solution Types, Toolsand Roles
Custom connectivity for data aggregation, transformation, security, etc.
Use custom code to integrate data into any Office app
Business logic in forms
Create reusable components (UI parts, ECTs, actions)
Customize
InfoPath forms
Word (QuickParts)
Workflow
Web Part Pages
Surface data in External Lists
Connect those lists to Outlook
External data columns
Intermediate
Simple
Advanced
NO CODE*
CODE
SharePoint Designer
SharePoint SDK
Visual
Studio
Power User
Advanced Developer
Developer

Baked into the Platform…
SharePoint Server 2010
Office 2010
Secure Store Service
External Data Search
Rich Client Extensions
BDC Client Runtime
External Data Web Parts
Profile Pages
SharePoint Foundation 2010
External List
External Data Column
Business Data Connectivity Service

BCS Services Authentication
Credentials These are typically in the form of name/password. Some external systems may also require additional credentials such as a personal identification number (PIN) value.
ClaimsSecurity Assertion Markup Language (SAML) tickets can be passed to claims-aware services that supply external data.

Authentication from SharePoint Server to External Data Source - Impersonation
Modes:
SharePoint Server
PassThrough
- Uses logged on user
RevertToSelf
- Uses process account
SSS Authentication
- Credentials, etc. from Secure Store)
Process Account
External List
Logged-on
user
BCS
Runtime
Web Parts
Identity
Custom App
Credentials OR Windows Identity Through Kerberos
Legacy LOB

Authentication from SharePoint Server to External Data Source
Modes:
SharePoint Server
PassThrough
RevertToSelf
SSS Authentication
Identity
Process Account
External List
Logged-on
user
BCS
Runtime
Web Parts
Custom App
Legacy LOB

Authentication from SharePoint Server to External Data Source
Modes:
PassThrough
RevertToSelf
SSS
SharePoint Server
- Credentials- Ticket
Delegation Token
Process Account
External List
Logged-on
user
BCS
Runtime
Web Parts
Identity
Creds/Token
Custom App
Secure Store Service
Legacy LOB

Connecting to SQL and creating an external list (Hello world)

Using an external lists and creating BCS associations

BCS Associations
Sales Order Table
Customers Table
Sales Order External List
Sales Order External List

BCS integration with Office

Attaching workflows to external lists & Search

Resources
BCS Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee661740.aspx
Plan to upgrade BCS
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607947.aspx
BCS Resource Centre
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff660755.aspx
BCS Video – Secure Store
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bcs/archive/2010/05/06/bcs-team-channel-secure-store-service.aspx
BCS Team blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bcs/
BCS Security Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee661743.aspx
Plan SharePoint 2010 Authentication
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262350.aspx

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Supported Associations
One-to-many Associations - based on a foreign key
A foreign key must be present in the External system
Un-Supported Associations
Many-to-Many Associations – no foreign key
Users will have to develop these Associations in the XML of the BDC Model files manually using an XML editor or through another External Content Type designer such as Visual Studio 2010.
Associations with Multiple Related External Content Types

Building Solutions With Business Connectivity Services

by Chakkaradeep Chandran on Aug 23, 2010

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