Business Data Connectivity Service - BDC metadata not found - Event 3021 (Duet Enterprise)

 

Applies to: Duet Enterprise for Microsoft SharePoint and SAP

Alert Name:   Business Data Connectivity Service - BDC metadata not found

Event ID:   3021

Summary

The Duet Enterprise SharePoint Add-on and Duet Enterprise SAP Add-ons utilize the Microsoft Business Connectivity Services to enable communication between SharePoint Server 2010 and the SAP environment. The BDC model that is associated with the SAP workflow contains metadata that the SAP workflow requires to connect to SharePoint solutions. The SAP workflow cannot find a metadata element in the associated BDC model that it requires to run.

Symptoms

The following symptoms might appear:

  • A new SAP workflow task type cannot be configured.

    Configuring a new SAP workflow registers a new site to display related tasks, reports, and data.

  • This event appears in the event log:

    Event ID: 3021 Description: Business Data Connectivity Service metadata element(s) specified in task parent endpoint could not be found.

Cause

The metadata in the BDC model that is required by an SAP workflow was not found in the BDC Metadata Store.

Resolution

Import BDC models

Important

This procedure is supported with BDC models that are provided with Duet Enterprise only. Do not use this procedure to import a custom BDC model. For more information, see Manage BDC models (SharePoint Server 2010) (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=200925).

Create a new SAP workflow