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myke_deabreu
Jul 31, 2019Copper Contributor
The Business Data Connectivity Metadata store is currently unavailable. (External SharePoint List)
I'm trying to create an external SharePoint list to a SQL Table (Done this before). However, when trying to complete the step of External Content Type I am having no luck Connecting to SharePoint...
- Jul 31, 2019No much we can do here to help you, just open a support ticket reporting the issue so Microsoft support folks can help you...one side note: BCS is one of the SPO services that has not been modified for a while and it's not clear what it's going to happen with it so if you can use other ways to integrate external data, I would recommend to go for them
Jul 31, 2019
No much we can do here to help you, just open a support ticket reporting the issue so Microsoft support folks can help you...one side note: BCS is one of the SPO services that has not been modified for a while and it's not clear what it's going to happen with it so if you can use other ways to integrate external data, I would recommend to go for them
- myke_deabreuJul 31, 2019Copper Contributor
jcgonzalezmartinThanks Juan. The problem was on Microsoft's side they actually have a notification message in the Info centre. Their support was really quick getting back to me (5min) after putting a ticket in through the portal.
Do you know any other method of pulling a table from Azure SQL to populate a SharePoint column without using BCS?
- asifkhawaja7Jun 03, 2021Copper Contributor
myke_deabreu one option could be you can use Power Automate to connect to Azure SQL and then update the SharePoint list with required data.
- princemathew650Dec 21, 2021Copper ContributorIs there any Microsoft article which mentioned "The Business Data Connectivity Issue"?