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Displaying an external list with the Business Data List Web Part
From the course: SharePoint Designer 2013: Creating Data-Driven Sites
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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Understanding data-driven pages4m 17s
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Understanding the Business Data Web Parts4m 3s
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Displaying an external list with the Business Data List Web Part5m 40s
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Displaying an external item with the Business Data Item Web Part3m 32s
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Using the Business Data Connectivity Filter Web Part4m 41s
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Modifying filters in an external content type12m 29s
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Creating an association between external content types5m 9s
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Displaying associated lists with the Related List Web Part3m 28s
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