Step 1
Navigate Central Administration –> Backup and Restore –> Export a Site or List and then choose your document library or list then Enter the file location then click the Start Export Button
Step 2
Exporting process take some time depending on the list size
Step 3
Open SharePoint Powershell run as administrator then enter following comment
Import-SPWeb -Identity <Site Path> -Path <cmp File path>
Step 4
Now we can see the new list with data.
Step 1
Navigate Central administration –>Under System Setting –>Click Manage Service in Server and then make sure Business Data Connectivity Service is started.
Step 2
Open SharePoint Designer 2010 then connect home site then Click “External Content Types” on the left side quick launch button and then click top of External Content Types ribbon button
Step 3
On the External data content information types enter new name and new display name then choose office item type is predefined type of list ,we just choose a contact list then we can also use this for outlook .
step 4
Click the link of “Click here to discover to external data sources and define operations.” then select a connection type of sql and give the database details .
step 5
Once connected database then we can see the tables then right click the table select “New Read Item Operation” we have one wizard ,in the wizard return parameter section we just map the office property then click finish button.select create Red List and other all do in vise versa and then click save.
step 6
Navigate Site Actions Click more Options then select and create the external list ,select data external content type then pick the our new data source then click create.
now we can see the SharePoint External Data List.
If we need to know custom field name then we have simple and quick method is go to list or document library select item then click the Edit Properties link and then right click the popup window then select view source ,if you use Firefox then right click This Frame –> View Source ,find (Ctrl + F) enter your field name now we can see the Field Internal Name .
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