SharePoint Business Data List Connector 7 released

New version adds support for SharePoint Server 2016 Preview.
October 7, 2015
Feature Release

SharePoint Business Data List Connector connects external data sources to native SharePoint lists including contacts, tasks, events, news or custom lists. It simplifies SharePoint architecture and solves many issues that exist with SharePoint out-of-the-box data integration. It can be used to connect to MS SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL, Sybase Advantage Database Server, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Informix, Postgres SQL, IBM UniData, IBM UniVerse, AS/400 (IMB iSeries), Progress and Microsoft Office data files.

Updates in 7

  • Now supports SharePoint Server 2016 Preview.
  • The internal SharePoint fields "Modified", "Modified By"," Created" and "Created By" are now supported.
  • Bug Fix: If a workflow or an API call inserted a DateTime value into a BDLC connected list, the DateTime was handled as UTC instead of local time.

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