We have a few BDC based external list that work very well but we are unable to make the Export to Excel work with Excel 2010.
It works well with Excel 2013 it but not with Excel 2010. Excel 2010 just says "Excel cannot connect to the Sharepoint list".
And in fact it does not even try. After opening the .iqy file, Excel 2010 gets the list schema ok via SOAP calls just like Excel 2013.
But then the Excel 2010 stops and does not try to query the data. Excel 2013 sends a soap call for the data and it works.
Does external lists Export to Excel work only with Office 2013 or is there some update/fix to make it work with Office 2010 also?
The standard list export works well with both.