Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2007 Bible

Configuring Business Data Search

Configuring SharePoint so that it indexes and returns search results for your business data is a multi-step process. In addition to adding a method to enumerate your entityIDs in the application definition, you will also add a content source for your business data, manage the profile metadata for your objects, add a search scope for business data, and then create search pages for searching and returning business data search results. SharePoint does not return business data in the all sites search scope.

Adding a content source

You need to create a content source so that SharePoint will index your business data. The application definition file provides the connection to and information about the business data but the search and indexing processes will not include the data until it is defined as a content source.

To add a content source for your BDC application, follow these steps:

1.	Open the SSP administration page.
2.	Select Search settings from the Search section.
3.	Select Content sources and crawl schedules.
4.	Click New Content Source from the top navigation bar.
5.	Type a name for your content source in the Name field and select Business Data as the type of content to be crawled.
6.	Select whether you would like to crawl the entire Business Data Catalog or just the application(s) that you select, as shown in Figure 17.4. Figure 17.4. Configuring a search content source for your business data [View full size image]
7.	Select an existing schedule ...