External list - filtering using URL

Hi All,
How can I apply filter using URL for external list? I know it works for SP native list.
Thanks :)

Thanks for your link. But it just works for "equal" value. How could I do for "contains" value.

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I have an external list that uses BCS to sql server. I can view the list with Lists.asmx web service GetLlistItems. However, I get an parameter error when trying to add to the list with UpdateListItems. I will be changing over sharepoint lists to sql
tables using BCS to connect to them and I need it to be seamless to clients that do CRUD operations using CAML. Are there any instructions on creating such an external list that maintains compatibility with ordinary sharepoint lists?

CRUD options are fine.
Here's what I've done.
Created ECT.
Created Read list & read item options.
Set a limit for 200 items (for testing purposes only)
Created external list based upon ECT created above.
Opened external list in web browser and I'm able to open, edit & add items without issue.
What I'd like is to have a simple HTML type form above the list (like in a Content Editor web part with a few text boxes and a 'search' button. I've tried the link below but it either crashes Sharepoint Designer when I'm defining the parameters or
if it works there the button doesn't work.
http://arsalkhatri.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/external-list-with-bcs-search-filters-finders/

Filtering using URL in NW04s

Dear Sirs,
my requirements are as follow. I have a query which I want to filter on a specific Business Partner (0bpartner). On top of the query I have a simple Webtemplate with Analysis item.
How can I using URL filter 0BPARTNER preferly without a variable.
best regards,
Jørgen
Found similar thread but does not reveal solution.
Hi Sany, Yes, I did get this resolved. However, so you can award points, please open up another forum post, and I will gladly answer. You can simply cut/paste the URL from this post and ask the same question.
Kind Regards,
Alex
PS. Looking for your new post.

Hi Jørgen,
SAP has moved to command sequences. If you append this onto the end of your URL (where your url ends with ...?QUERY=xxxx), and you replace nnnnn (quotations not required) with the value you want in your 0BPARTNER, it should work:
&BI_COMMAND_1-BI_COMMAND_TYPE=SET_SELECTION_STATE&BI_COMMAND_1-TARGET_DATA_PROVIDER_REF_LIST-TARGET_DATA_PROVIDER_REF_1=DP_1&BI_COMMAND_1-CHARACTERISTICS_SELECTIONS-CHARACTERISTIC_SELECTIONS_2-CHARACTERISTIC=0BPARTNER&BI_COMMAND_1-CHARACTERISTICS_SELECTIONS-CHARACTERISTIC_SELECTIONS_2-SELECTIONS-SELECTION_2-SELECTION_INPUT_STRING=nnnnn
For your reference, here is the SAP help on this topic..
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/43/ef05462480025ae10000000a1553f7/content.htm
If this helps, please award point accordingly.
Regards,
Alex

Add/update an item to an external list using Designer WF

Hi,
I have two lists (A & B). A- regular SharePoint list, B- External list.
Now, I have a Designer WF on A to add/update the items to the B. Unfortunately, SP 2013 killed the feature to update the external list directly using Designer WF 2013. However, I was able to use REST services to add/update item to the external list from
the browser either using Fiddler or Mozilla client side tools.So I thought I could use Designer HTTP call action to achieve this. But when I tried to use the HTTP call from the Designer WF, it won't add/update the items to B. I thought I was doing some
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Hi Jeroen,
Use following funtion call with mentioned parameters
call function 'CRM_ORDER_MAINTAIN'
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        no_change_allowed = 3
        no_authority      = 4
        others            = 5.
here in for parameter lt_status1 u can fill up your required status and then execute the FM.
After that execute FM BAPI_TRANSACTION_COMMIT.
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Prefix in the External list management

Hello experts;
I enhanced the elm in order to include new fields requested by the client. I used the solution described in help.sap.com so as all the fields requested are now in the mapping format functionality. Particularly i added to the table CRMD_MKTLIST_PER_EXT the fields PERS_BPEXT PERS_BPKIND PERS_PREFIX1 ...If for the first two i don't have problem at all the prefix is giving me some troubles. In the mapping once selected i'm not able to see in the Value assignment the possible values that shoulb be picked from the table TSAD4. This is very strange because for the BPKIND i don't have any problems and i have the values fished from the TB004.!.!
The only guessing i have is that the 200 entries of the TSAD4 could cause some issues...(Holland as a lot of possible prefixs)... Is that a reasonable explanation or there is something else i can check???
Thank you very much.
Fabio Rocca

Hi Alexander,
The external list generally uses the internal standard grouping, in case u have not assigned the PER_NUMBER or ORG_NUMBER int the mapping definition.
Use tcode: SPRO
SAP Implementation Guide->Cross-Application Components->SAP Business Partner->Business Partner->Basic Settings->Number Ranges and Groupings->Define Groupings and Assign Number Ranges.
Here which ever number range and grouping are marked as Int Std grouping will be picked up.If u wish to change the same, you can even do so.
Wish it helps.
Regards,
Shalini Chauhan

WCF based External List Columns Type in Sharepoint 2010

In my Sharepoint 2010 I've created External List that uses WCF service as data source. This is my data type that is exposed by the service:
[DataContract]
public class Item
[DataMember]
public Guid Id { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string Name { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string Description { get; set; }
Everything is fine as long as I'm using simple types such as string, int, bool. This types are mapped to Sharepoint types without any issue.
Now I what to use something more complex.
[DataContract]
public class Item
[DataMember]
public Guid Id { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string Name { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string Description { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public Uri Link { get; set; }
I've added Link property of type Uri. By default this field does not appear in my list at all because, as far as I understand, sharepoint doesn't know how to map this property. I would like to map it to field of type Hyperlink or Picture.
Is there any way to explicitly define to which type I want my property to be mapped to? I can use another type in my Item class if necessary.

a URI and a SPHyperLink wouldn't directly match up... a SPHyperLink contains a URI and a description.
BCS has a bit of trouble when it comes to complex types... your best bet is to stick with the supported primitives, and then convert to a hyperlink on the rendering side (custom list view, search results web part, etc).
see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5399340/sharepoint-bcs-creating-a-hyperlink-column
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Column header filtering not functioning for external lists

I have a problem with column header filtering on external lists, specific for columns of Number and Date types.
When the site's regional settings are in English (United States) filtering works fine, but if I choose any other regional setting with different number formatting (ie Dutch) then filtering on these columns gives no results.
When clicking on the column header filter dropdown, the numbers to filter on are displayed with thousands seperators where the numbers in the views are not formatted as seen in attached screenshot.
Filtering on custom sharepoint list with these regional settings is working fine, it is just on external lists, on number and date fields and regional setting is not English.
I have tried all different kind of regional settings on the client and the server, but no results.
Anybody has a clue?
Clicking on the column header shows all available filter values (with thousand seperator). Selecting one value gives no results:
No results after selecting a filter value

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you had an issue about column filter in external list.
We can use the SharePoint Manager to change the column type to “single line of text”, then you would filter column in the external list.
There is a similar thread for your reference:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/fe67d581-6e7b-4770-b296-8ec0f9b5b769/not-able-to-filter-or-sort-by-list-column-headers-for-external-data-fields-ideas?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious
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How to get Filtered external list data into infopath form

Hello ,
Below I am adding issue about filtered external list .
I Created a external list which contains columns like projectuid and project name , I am filtering the list by adding a custom webpart and after filtering it displays only the filtered rows .
I created a infopath form and i am using the same external list as data source . I am using the data source for an drop down list/ text box .My requirement is to display only the filtered values in the drop down list but its displaying all the values
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Is there any possibility to get only the filtered values into the drop down list ?
Indresh

Actually, after thinking about it some more, you can filter the dropdown in InfoPath, but it depends on what you're filtering and whether that changes. If you want to filter it, you can go to the "control properties," then under "Entries," you can click
the button on the right. Then "filter data" in the popup.
As far as sending the information to a new list, you would have to use the "content organizer" under "manage site features" in your "site actions," or you would have to create a workflow in SP Designer.
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Unable to get the SharePoint 2013 List names using Client object model for the input URL

Please can you help with this issue.
We are not able to get the SharePoint 2013 List names using Client object model for the input URL.
What we need is to use default credentials to authenticate user to get only those list which he has access to.
clientContext.Credentials = Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials
But in this case we are getting error saying ‘The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.’
Instead of passing Default Credentials, if we pass the User credentials using:
clientContext.Credentials = New Net.NetworkCredential("Administrator", "password", "contoso")
It authenticates the user and works fine. Since we are developing a web part, it would not be possible to pass the user credentials. Also, the sample source code works perfectly fine on the SharePoint 2010 environment. We need to get the same functionality
working for SharePoint 2013.
We are also facing the same issue while authenticating PSI(Project Server Interface) Web services for Project Server 2013.
Can you please let us know how we can overcome the above issue? Please let us know if you need any further information from our end on the same.
Sample code is here: http://www.projectsolution.com/Data/Support/MS/SharePointTestApplication.zip
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Hi Mistry,
I sure that CSOM will authenticate without passing the
"clientContext.Credentials = Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials" by default. It will take the current login user credentials by default. For more details about the CSOM operations refer the below link.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/fp179912.aspx
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Possible to use list filters to filter library?

Hi-
We have a library of documents, and want to add XLS to how it displays for end users. However, doing so means we can't use column header filtering.
so, we tried to use List filters (as ugly as they are), but they will not allow us to connect to the web part showing the documents.
Has anyone been able to use OOB functionality to add one web part (EG, sharepoint list filters) to filter a document library display?
thanks.
Barbara Selden director, Business Readiness 110 Consulting

Hi Barbara,
As I understand, you want to use OOB functionality to add one web part (EG, sharepoint list filters) to filter a document library display.
Could you please provide the screenshot of the SharePoint list filter web part configuration?
You should make sure the SharePoint list filter web part and document library in the same page. When they are in the same page, you could build the connection between them.
Then you could edit the web part to choose the document library in the list section, view and value field. Then create the connection to the document library by clicking connection. You could click the drop-down arrow in the upper-right corner of the SharePoint
list filter Web Part, click Connections, click Get Filter Values From, and then select the custom list.
Then you could enable Server Rendering in the document library web part. You could edit the document library-> Miscellaneous > Enable Server Rendering.
After all you could filter the document library.
The article below is about how to connect a SharePoint List Filter Web Part to a Data View Web Part.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Connect-a-Filter-Web-Part-to-a-Data-View-Web-Part-bc10362e-afaa-42dc-b09e-ba8b1b83bb3c?CTT=5&origin=HA010033786&CorrelationId=6ed6821e-b67e-4adf-bd83-6ccc18441ec0&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US#bms5
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How to Insert Data in Database using BCS with out External List

Hi,
How to Insert,Update and Delete User Interface data using business connectivity service with out External List.Please suggest me solution.
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Once you've configured the external content type, you can interact with it using the BDC Object Models available to you. You can use server side or client side and interact with the database without an external list.
Check these links:
Server side:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff464357(v=office.14).aspx#sectionSection3
Client Side: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/jj164116.aspx
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IOS Content Filtering Using TrendMicro: Can I customize the block-page redirect-url?

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Once I figured out that the content filtering for Trend appears to be completely broken in 15.2 (even using docs for 15.2) I went back to 15.1 and it works great.
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Can moving large sharepoint lists to database and using database table as an external list help performance?

Hi All,
I have to maintain a huge SharePoint 2010 list with more than 700,000 items in it. The items are data records(not documents) and are distributed among a number of folders. There are also a number webparts that are currently using this list. As you can imagine
the performance of queries on the list have degraded considerably. Even opening the folders with too many items in them takes quite some time. We are looking for a solution for this situation and some people suggested to move the list items to a SQL Server
table and make an external list representing the original list. They think this way the changes that we have to make in the webparts source codes will be minimal.
I am not sure if this is the best solution as I have heard about slow external lists. Do you think using the external list instead of our current list improves the performance? Do you think this is the right solution for us?
I would be grateful if you tell me your ideas to solve this problem.
Thanks in advance

"right solution for us" is hard to solve without more info.
SharePoint list items can include things like version history, content approval, audit tracking, and more... such things are NOT built into SQL.
BCS is an option, and generally changing a list CAN have a very minimal impact (making many assumptions about how it's used)...
BCS also incurs an overhead of the lookup (since it's external). And there are record limits (defaults at a minimum).
And more importantly, SharePoint *can* handle large lists... if done appropriately... but can also be mis-handled.
The limits imposed on large lists by SharePoint, are largely attributable DIRECTLY BACK TO SQL (specifically, the number of records that can be obtained with ROW locks before switching to PAGE locks or TABLE locks, which have LARGER impacts).
So again, BCS is an option, but whether it's the "right solution for us" is more dependent. Plus, you would probably also benefit by spending some time investigating the other uses (web parts/etc) for opportunities to improve their performance,
user experience, etc.
Scott Brickey
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Create PDF from Web Page Using URL List

Hello
I have a list of 100+ URLs which I would like to convert into PDF's
I currently need to open each web page and hit the convert button
Is there a way to automate the process. (For example can I import the list of URL's into Acrobat) and have Acrobat convert all the urls into PDF
Thank you

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What I said; was that I don't know of a 'pont 'n click' way of doing this, It can be done programmtically.
Might not be what you want to hear though.

Infopath 2010 Web Form will not run code behind or load External Lists after FormEvents_Loading added

Building a form to edit and create data in external list. The business rules do not allow for creation in an external list bound InfoPath form. (We are cascade filtering multiple drop down lists from external content type).
All works to write code behind to push new record or update record in external list. The big issue came when trying to add FormEvents_loading event to the code to capture URL parameter. I want to be able to pass the Primary Key of the record to
edit, load the data into the form and allow editing and submit. I have tested by manually entering the data and the form works. The form will no longer load data from external lists for the drop downs and shows an error stating "The custom code
in the form cannot be run. This functionality may be deactivated
on the server. For more information, contact the server farm administrator."
I think this is related to moving from the normal forms services into sandboxed code service. Is there a way to access external content types and still have form loading event capture URL parameters?
The code to capture the URL is listed below:
XPathNavigator myNav1 = this.MainDataSource.CreateNavigator();
string InputF1 = string.Empty;
if (e.InputParameters.ContainsKey("AuthPK"))
InputF1 = e.InputParameters["AuthPK"];
myNav1.SelectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:CodeData/my:DatabaseUpdateStatus", this.NamespaceManager).SetValue(InputF1);
myNav1.SelectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:CodeData/my:pk_tblOFCAuthorizations", this.NamespaceManager).SetValue(InputF1);
else
myNav1.SelectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:CodeData/my:pk_tblOFCAuthorizations", this.NamespaceManager).SetValue("0");
Is there another way to pass parameters to the form? I tried using web part connection, but that does not work with code behind form at all, which would stop me from updating external list.

Hi,
As this question is more related to InfoPath development, I suggest you post it to Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) Forum, more experts will assist you with this issue.
Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) Forum:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=vsto
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