BCS External Item Picker - Multi Select

Hi,
I've created a ECT using a WCF-Service to consume some sharepoint list data. ECT has a ReadList and ReadItem method.
I embedded a external item picker in a Infopath 2013 form, it's connecting to my ECT and displaying data as expected.
Now I tried to enable the multi select option (beside I tried to enable a default query as well), I cannot get it to work.
When I look at the external item picker url with fiddler, multiselect is always false, defaultquery always empty.
I tried several ECT (a .NET version, even 1 with famous Northwind), but multi select never works.
What is the trick?
KR
Andreas

In the IP form, is the ECT bound to a list column? is that list column configured to allow multiple values?
if IP is being used for an XML form, you might need to have multiple pickers inside a repeating field.
Scott Brickey
MCTS, MCPD, MCITP
www.sbrickey.com
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= = = = = = =
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