Working with External Documents in Duet Enterprise
A Duet Enterprise external document is a Business Data Connectivity (BDC) service external list that displays business data from a SAP external system, web service, or database.
Applies to: Duet Enterprise for Microsoft SharePoint and SAP Server 2.0 | Office 2010 | SharePoint Server 2010
To use and extend BDC, you need the following:
To enable the BDC to display a specific contact, you must add a Specific Finder method. The BDC external content type must support the following methods to support uploading, downloading, and deleting external documents:
Finder Provides a listing of all external documents.
Specific Finder Provides all details about a particular external document such as identifier, name, details, status, and type.
A Generic invoker (used for downloading) Supports a generic invoker which gives the raw file data for the given external document
Creator Takes all the required parameters plus the raw file data (as byte[]) to create an external document at the external system.
Deleter Deletes the document from the external system for the specified document external item.