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Displaying an external list with the Business Data List Web Part

Displaying an external list with the Business Data List Web Part

From the course: SharePoint Designer 2013: Creating Data-Driven Sites

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Displaying an external list with the Business Data List Web Part

- I'm going to create a new site page, a new wiki page, so that we can display the business data list web part and use that web part to be able to show our data from our external products list. So I'm going to choose "New" and this is a demo of the business data list web part. So I'm just going to call this a BD List demo. Here's my new wiki page, open for editing. I can choose insert, web part, business data and we're going to use the business data list, click "Add". So the web part is going to be placed really quickly and then I'll be asked to open the tool pane and connect it to some external data. Now I have external content type picker that I can use here. If I had thousands of different external content types I could use find in order to locate one. I can choose from that list or if I have thousands but I'm only working with a few of them, it's not a bad thing for me to type in the names and I'll probably know them, it's being loaded. Here's the default view. Now I want to note…

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