Set External Field Value by Workflow

Is there any way to Set External Field Value by SPD 2013 workflow?

Hi j.kiani,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to update an external column in a list by SharePoint workflow.
I did a test:
Create a list with an external column
Create a workflow , and add ‘Set Field in Current Item’ action, select the field is the external column, set the value to a value from the External Content type data source
Publish the workflow and start it on an item
The external column was changed to the value that I set in workflow. However, when I refreshed the external column by clicking the ‘sync’ flag, the data was changed to the old value.
I used ‘Update ListItem’ action, the result was same
It seems that there is not an OOB way to change external column with SharePoint workflow. You can change the external column by SharePoint web OOB way (Editing item) .
I hope this helps.
Thanks,
Wendy
Wendy Li
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