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Creating external lists

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Creating external lists

So we have an external content type defined, but so what? Well, in all our dealings so far with external data, we have then created a web page and used that data source to fuel a web part on that page. That's not what I'm going to do here; it's a different kind of tactic. This is much more of a true integration piece. We have defined this connection to, in this case, the titles table on a book's database. What we can do now is create a SharePoint list based on this external content type, and I'll automatically have the page to view that list, the page to add an item, the page to delete an item, a page to edit an item, generated for us. I can do that from SharePoint Designer. If I'm in the External Content Type section, there is an option up here called Create Lists and Form. I don't have to do it here. I can in fact open up the web site that that external content type is defined on, and I can create it from within the SharePoint site itself. If I do that, it's like creating any other…

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