Connecting to OData

OData is a supported external data source that was added to Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in Microsoft® SharePoint® 2013. You can find out more information about OData from the web site: www.odata.org.

*The following URL is a useful OData service that you can use to Meta Man to build a OData BDC model: http://services.odata.org/OData/OData.svc/

To connect to an OData external data source, complete the following steps:

1. Under Data Source, click OData and then in the odata source url text box, type the url of the OData services which is exposing the data that you want to display in SharePoint.
   
2. Select the use secure store check box, if you want to use a SharePoint Secure Store Service.
3. Click the blue arrow icon to move to the next step – build one or more external content types.
   

!Business Connectivity Services does not support OData v4, and therefore neither does BCS Meta Man. OAuth is also not supported by Business Connectiivity Services.

Connecting to ODBC →