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Crawled Properties from Business Data not getting populated

I follow the AdventureWorks Business Data Application Sample Walkthrough.

So I have the Products Business Data Application on my SSP.

I can successfully test the business application with the Business Data List web part.
I can successfully crawl the business application without errors.

But the Crawled Properties don't get populated.
Means when I go to "Search Settings >Crawled Property Categories" Number of Properties is 0 under Category "Business Data".

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot.

[571 byte] By [Michael23] at [2008-2-7]
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# 1

Michael,

Can you check you index logs to ensure the BDC entities are being crawled, check for errors or content being excluded based on rules. You should see an entry for each row in the database for each entity (table).

Andrew

andrewwoodward at 2007-9-6 > top of Msdn Tech,SharePoint Products and Technologies,SharePoint - Search...
# 2

I am experiencing the same issue. I have bee trying to access custom data in a people search by linking an Employee DB to AD.:

  • Set up a BDC to our employee database

  • added it as a content source

  • created a scope

  • added it as an import source

  • mapped the fields to Profile fields

When I run an import from AD and the BDC, the data I mapped is working great and I can see everything. When I go to the Search Settings -> Metadata Properties and select crawled content, it is not there. With out it being a Search mapped Property, I can not add the columns to my people search results page (in the XML).

Help.

Mike

mbeaudry905 at 2007-9-6 > top of Msdn Tech,SharePoint Products and Technologies,SharePoint - Search...
# 3

Are the people profile properties that you created marked indexable. If they are not then they are not made available to crawler.

You can check that on the

SSP>User profile and Properties>View Profile Properties

Click Edit in ECB menu for the profile property in question and then make sure the check box "Indexed" is checked on the page. If it is not then check that.

Do the above step for all properties in question and then kick off a crawl. You should be able to see the crawled properties then

-Puneet

PuneetNarula-MSFT at 2007-9-6 > top of Msdn Tech,SharePoint Products and Technologies,SharePoint - Search...
# 4

andrew

do you mean in the crawl log? there are no errors. the two entries are:

bdc2://ec9fb09b-3489-47c3-ae6d-1f981f7b525c/177...
Crawled

bdc://ec9fb09b-3489-47c3-ae6d-1f981f7b525c/__bk...
Crawled

Crawled Content Status - 2 Items: 2 Successes, 0 Errors, 0 Warnings

Michael

Michael23 at 2007-9-6 > top of Msdn Tech,SharePoint Products and Technologies,SharePoint - Search...
# 5

I think I found out why the crawl isn't picking up the values. I was missing the IDEnumerator method. The problem now is, how do I create that? I guess I need to pop to a different forum.

Thanks for all of your help.

ZenMage905 at 2007-9-6 > top of Msdn Tech,SharePoint Products and Technologies,SharePoint - Search...
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