I have an existing Access database. This has grown in importance within the company and now others need access for data entry and running existing reports and queries.
I have a site on Office 365: E3. I have attempted to use the "Move Data" to "SharePoint", but this creates errors and queries do not function.
Uncertain how to proceed. I am relatively new to Access and extremely new to SharePoint.
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I have created a Mobile App and Database in Microsoft Azure. Now I am trying to create Easy Tables from Mobile App but I am getting error message "You need database to use East Tables. Click here to create one.
Even though I have existing database Easy Tables doesn't list it.
Below is the screenshot.
I have mapped Data Connection with mobile app, below is the screenshot
It would be great if anyone can help, I am new to azure.
Your connection string must be created with name: MS_TableConnectionString
Just because you have a database doesn't mean it is linked. Click on Data Connections, then Add, then add your existing SQL database.
Note that Easy Tables won't recognize the existing tables unless you add them through Easy Tables. There are notes around the format of Id (it needs to be
a string) and other fields.
When you created your Database Server did you check "Allow azure services to access server"? That could be why you cannot see the Database listed.
I have a set of SSRS reports that I want to provide access to multiple customers. Each customer has their own database. There is a shared data source that all the reports access. Each customer's database has identical schema/objects, only the data is different. Each customer has an Active Directory login.
Is there a way for the Shared Data Source to dynamically change which database it connects to based on the user accessing the report? Is there a way using SSRS integrated with Sharepoint?
The only other solution I've seen is passing in the Server/Database as parameters, which would require an application and use of the web service.
Sharepoint Mode might offer some (AD) authentication and datasource stuff I don't know about, but you could combine the parameter solution you mention with the [%UserId] global, and build a connection dynamically based on it.
Here's an alternative solution with a single source report, deployed once per client:
create one report folder per database
use a shared data source, one per database (located in that folder)
on first deploy, configure the data source connection for each database
set OverwriteDatasources to false
set up a deployment process (using multiple configurations, or perhaps a script) that deploys the source report to all customer folders
update your site so each user gets to see a report from the corresponding customer folder
I have sharepoint sites provisioned on two machines A and B. I would like to take the content database from machine A and restore it into the site on machine B.
I used SQL backup to backup machine A's database, and restored it to machine B, overwriting the existing content database. However, my sharepoint site became unreachable - I would get a generic site not found error. Did I also have to back up and restore SharePoint_Config database too?
What is the best practices for this kind of scenario?
You need to tell sharepoint where your new database is. just go to the content database management page on central administration. there you will see your previous database mapped to the web application. remove it and and the new database. it will map the web app to it and your sites will come back. be careful when entering the server and database name, as you could create a new db instead of connecting to the existing one if you mistype the name
In SharePoint 2010 the business data catalog will be replaced by Business Connectivity Services.
With BDC the data in SharePoint would only be synchronized with the datasource when requested.
Is this still the case with BCS or does this work with live, up to date, data?
Data in External Lists is being retrieved on fly. When user opens a page SharePoint retrieves list data from external source.
When you are using BCS in External Column selected value for that column is stored to SharePoint list until you hit refresh.
We're looking at doing a MOSS 2007 site which will have a fairly dynamic component (an external product catalog). The external produces will be stored in a database (not managed by SharePoint) and all interaction will occur via Web Parts.
Is it possible to configure the SharePoint search to index the textual content and the external database? Or can a custom search provider be written which is also used to query the external database?
The Business Data Catalog is intended as the solution in this case.
A BDC solution is crawlable out of the box.
Unfortunately the BDC requires the Enterprise licence for SharePoint, a hefty price increase.
Any other solution will require an html interface to the database either by including the data inside the SharePoint webpages themselves or a custom set of pages.
I have not tried using a custom search provider so I cannot make a comment on doing that.
It is easy enough to include searching on both content sources as OOB SharePoint provides the ability to distinguish between content sources and has the ability to create search scopes that allow rules based on content type or url to be created.