SharePoint 2010: Howto configure Business Data Connectivity access rights

By | April 11, 2010
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You may encounter “Access denied by Business Data Connectivity” error when trying to access External List. The reason is because External List requires External Content type ; and External Content type is using Business Data Connectivity services proxy to access external Data Source. With the same principle of BDC in MOSS 2007 – users are required to have BDC Object permission before they can use it.  There are several set of permission available for the BDC object:

– Edit                                  
– Execute                            
– Selectable in Clients
– Set Permissions

How to configure the BDC access rights?

1. Open Central Administration page, and click on Manage service application.

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2. Click on Business Data Connectivity Service

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3. Open the context menu of the External Content type (ie. External CT in this example). Click on Set permissions.

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4. Add account (Group, or User) and assign the permissions.

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5. Set appropriate permission to the BDC object. Remember that BDC object permission rules the interaction between user and external data source through BDC object. It doesn’t rules his/her permission accessing Forms in the list (New / Edit / Delete  form).

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25 thoughts on “SharePoint 2010: Howto configure Business Data Connectivity access rights”

  1. Meik

    Thanks!
    Great Blog-Entry which helps me a lot

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  3. steve

    Thanks for this – I received this error today and did not know about this fix – so thanks for the clear screenshots!

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  4. gigi

    Hi,

    I got the “Access denied by Business Data Connectivity” error while trying to set up an external Content type. So I do not have an external Content type where I can set the permissions. How do I handel this situation?

    Thank you!

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  5. Tareq

    Thanks alot man, that help me alot,
    I was accessing the central administration using https://
    when I used the http:// it works fine.

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  6. paras

    very nice work …………!!!1 owesome it saved my lot of time
    GO to 1>centeral admin 2> then click on setObjectPermissions 3>select users rights 4> then ADD 5>ok then done
    quite easy………. thanx

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  7. Srinivasan

    Thanks.. Today I got this error. Your article was very useful. Thanks again

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  9. Nishigandha Darade

    Thnx for gr8 article..
    i solved my problem..

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  10. Nimisha C

    Hi
    Your article was so helpful. But still Iam getting an when I try to set permissions “An error occurred while trying to assign an Access Control List to ‘IEntity’ with name ‘BCS WorkFlow’. At least one user/group in the Access Control List must have the SetPermissions right to avoid creating a non-manageable object.”. What is the reason for that? Can you please tell….

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  11. Nimisha C

    Hi
    I could make out the problem and solved it. Its because as like Performance PointBCS also uses your windows account for authentication and not your sharepoint site account.

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  15. Judy

    Thanks for the info. I’m in the process of learning SharePoint and your post was very helpful.

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  16. Sean

    Nobody seems to mention about rights on the SQL Server Database.
    (Note: I am a server administrator and dbo.owner within the SQL Server)

    I setup the External content type in Sharepoint Designer
    Then followed the procedure above and everything works for me.

    However, now I want to set up a business user. When I do that it says logon failed for nt\annoyomous user.

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  18. Prem Chand

    Hi,

    I was reading your article and I would like to appreciate you for making it very simple and understandable. This article gives me a basic idea of Business Data Connectivity service in SharePoint 2010. Check out this link too its also having a wonderful post on business data connectivity services in sharepoint……
    http://mindstick.com/Articles/049081ce-2993-4d31-81f8-b1e7d7ed7599/?Business%20Data%20Connectivity%20service%20in%20SharePoint%202010

    Thank you very much!

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  20. Joe

    Hi,
     
    I haven't Business data connectivity service.
    How can i do in order to enable it?
     
    Thank you in advance for any answer.

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  21. Mustafa

    There are currently no external content types
    But when i click on Business data connectivity service, I don't find my external content type. How i find my external content type and set permissions on it.

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  23. dhiraj

    Hello is it possible to fetch BCS data in infopath.

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    1. cakriwut Post author

      I never try to fetch BCS data in InfoPath.
      However, I can use BCS data as external content types for my list and use InfoPath to retrieve the list.

      -Riwut-

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