Re: BDC infopath

Jim Cantwell — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:58:27 GMT

I don't think Microsoft provided an easy way to do this using InfoPath directly. Since UDCXs provide similar ability to query backend data, they probably made querying BDC data from InfoPath a low priority scenario.

You can add BDC columns to custom lists (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms548808.aspx), which could be used like a normal SharePoint list source, but it requires a row added in the list to show the related BDC data. But that has limited usefulness.

I did find a link to a blog where someone wrote a webservice that provided an interface for the BDC connection and InfoPath (http://weblog.vb-tech.com/nick/archive/2007/01/12/2088.aspx). This is still not getting InfoPath to query the bdc data from SharePoint, but rather providing a single interface for both SharePoint and InfoPath to query.

Re: BDC infopath

Patrick Halstead — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:51:31 GMT

Hi M,

I'll ask one of our developers to respond. More soon.

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marie Assumpta — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:25:37 GMT

Could somebody send me a link or blogs how to use business data catalog created in share point in infopath form.

I am looking on the web but I don't find documentation.

Thanks for your help.

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