SharePoint Designer 2013: Business Data Connectivity Metadata Store is Currently Unavailable

When using SharePoint Designer 2013 to create External Content Types, you may find yourself getting a message similiar to the following:

The Business Data Connectivity Metadata Store is currently unavailable.


First make sure that you have the Business Data Connectivity Service Application created in Central Admin:

Though the business data connectivity service application has been created and you are getting same kind of issue.

Here is the Solution

Create a new business Data Connectivity service application and provide the permissions required, then you are good to go

Return to Sharepoint Designer 2013 and the External Content Types displayed

 Clicking on New External Content Type no longer will give you an error.

Add-SPSolution : Cannot access the local farm. Verify that the local farm is properly configured, currently available, and that you have the appropriate permi ssions to access the database before trying again.

Perform the following script in the SharePoint Management Shell, as a farm administrator and it will remove the error.

Get-SPDatabase | Add-SPShellAdmin SomeDomain\SomeUserName

Windows 8 tiles system

Check this out..

Windows 8 tiles system

http://droptiles.com/#flickr
http://www.drewgreenwell.com/projects/metrojs#fiddleAround

Responsive Carousel variations

Check below links to see different carousel effects

• Default, no transitions
• Default, no revolving content
• Fade transitions
• Fade with autoplay
• Slide transition with touch
• Slide transition with touch and arrow keys
• Autoplay slide transition with touch and arrow keys
• Ajax-included extra slides (w/ slide transition)
• Flip transition with touch
• Flip transition with touch & autoplay
• Default with pagination links
• Dynamic responsive containers
• Default with Styled Arrows
• Default with Peeking next/prev

Event Receivers vs Workflows

Differences between event receivers and workflows

Event Receivers	Workflows
Can execute either before or after the operation	Always executes after the operation
Can cancel the operation	Cannot cancel the operation as the item will have already been created
Cannot be launched manually by the user	Can be started manually by the user
Not designed for user interaction	Specifically designed for user interaction
Can execute in response to many different actions, including deletes	Can only execute in response to one of four events – Manual, an item being created, an item being edited, and an item being submitted for approval
Must be created in Visual Studio	Can be created with Visual Studio, Visio or SharePoint Designer

do check the below link to get more information about workflows, event receivers and Timer jobs

http://www.dotnetplace.com/post/Difference-between-SharePoint-WorkFlow-Event-Receivers-and-Timer-Job.aspx

one of the main points which i have observed is Workflows are more robust than event receivers. They can survive system reboot and while in few cases Event receivers cant.

One of the nice post i have ever seen on the search refinement panel display template is
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/murads/archive/2013/03/01/using-jquery-and-jqplot-in-your-display-template-to-show-a-piechart-refiner.aspx

Try the mentioned steps, even if you search for more help you will not get more than what has been explained here.

Check below link if you ever get a requirement to have some link action to be performed on every hover panel..

http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2014/01/extending-SP2013-Office-365-search-hover-panel.html

All the best..