I want to use the identity in Sharepoint so that it can be available for inserting related records. It could be something as simple as “insert a record, and then show me the record I just inserted.” Assuming I can modify the method in the BDC Model to return the identity value, I don’t imagine there’s any way to use that in SP without writing custom code – ie no way to do it in SP Designer alone. Do you know if that’s correct?

Cheers,

Daniel

Are you trying to capture the Identity number for error handling or logging? I think you could return the @@IDENTITY in the store procedure but if you wanted to “capture” and do something with the value in SharePoint you would have to use the Visual Studio 2010 BDC Model project to create the External Content Type instead of SharePoint Designer. Is this what you are looking for?

Regards,

Troy

You ended this post with the comment that a Create operation would be easy to implement. I was wondering if you were able to return the @@IDENTITY to Sharepoint from your Create method (using either a stored proc or an insert to a table). I think SP generates a command that looks like this: “INSERT INTO… ; SELECT @@IDENTITY FROM…” I just don’t know if there’s an easy way to capture the returned value.

Thanks for the post.

Thanks for the post. One minor comment. You said: “By default the installer will install python in C:\Python2.5\”. ActivePython 2.5’s default install dir is actually “C:\Python25″, i.e. without the period (‘.’).

Cheers,
Trent (ActivePython developer)