Access denied by Business Data Connectivity
Sometimes when you are creating and modifying External Content Types (ECT), you may see the error Access denied by Business Data Connectivity.
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The normal course of events when setting up an ECT is that after making sure your data source is properly configured, you use SharePoint Designer to set up the ECT. Then, you need to give permissions to specific users and groups for that ECT. You use SharePoint 2010 Central Administration to assign those permissions.
One problem that can produce the above error message is that modifying the ECT in SharePoint Designer clears those permissions. If you modify the ECT in SharePoint designer, you need to go back into Central Administration and set permissions again.
Of course, you could be receiving this error because you’ve never set permissions.
The following procedure shows how to set them.
You open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration on the server that will consume the web service, and click on Manage service applications.
Then you click on Business Data Connectivity Service.
Then you select the ECT and click Set Object Permissions.
Then in the resulting Set Object Permissions dialog box, you add yourself, or someone else, or a group, or All Authenticated Users, and assign them the permissions that you want to give them.
Comments
- Anonymous
August 03, 2010
Thank you! This fixed my problem! Nice Post!! - Anonymous
September 07, 2010
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March 09, 2011
Thank you for this straightforward post.Mine disappeared, but didn't reappear until I added "All Users (windows)"in Set Object Permissions. - Anonymous
September 19, 2011
A very good post. Thank you very much. - Anonymous
December 14, 2011
Thank you So Much. It Fixed my Issue. - Anonymous
February 16, 2012
This solution worked for me too as documented in this post. Thank you. - Anonymous
March 04, 2012
This is what am looking for. Thanks a lot for Sharing. - Anonymous
April 11, 2012
Hi,I have the same error message as JF Fustec when I tried this solution :Unable to display this Web Part. To troubleshoot the problem, open this Web page in a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation-compatible HTML editor such as Microsoft SharePoint Designer. If the problem persists, contact your Web server administrator.Correlation ID:8061351f-1b27-4198-b1b8-4603893011ab - Anonymous
June 07, 2012
Thank you so much! You've saved me a lot of time. - Anonymous
November 11, 2012
Thank you! This fixed my problem! Nice Post!! - Anonymous
December 27, 2012
Thanks for posting this information. You don't need to give all the users full access to the connection. read access is enough. - Anonymous
May 28, 2013
Rafael there is no "read access" in the permissions config. What are you talking about? - Anonymous
November 26, 2013
Hi I am getting this error while creating 'External Content Type' with 'WCF Service' as a data source.Please help me to solve my problem.Thank you. - Anonymous
January 16, 2014
This final step jumps up and bites me every time! Thanks! Exactly the solution I needed. After ALL the other setup (SSS, BDC, SQL Server...) I always forget to go to BDC and grant perms there too! - Anonymous
May 08, 2014
Thank You! fixed my issue. - Anonymous
May 10, 2014
I followed all steps mentioned here.I am getting the following error :Exception of type 'Microsoft.BusinessData.Runtime.CannotConnectException' was thrown.Any inputs?Thanks - Anonymous
July 15, 2015
Thanks! I never added myself as to the BCS in SPO. Now I can create my ECT from SPD using my secure store credential ID!