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At some point you may want to do an Enterprise Search query and specify that the results come from a particular content source. A lot of times you might create a custom scope with that content source in it, but if you don't want to create a new scope...
Unfortunately, the Tulsa SharePoint Users Group meeting had to be canceled tonight. Don't fret, I will still be presenting my talk on the BDC in April or May. I'm sorry to disappoint all of my die hard fans that were planning on attending tonight...
I have seen quite a few searches for this warning in our stats, so I thought I would address the following message received when importing an application definition into the Business Data Catalog. Could not create profile page for Entity MyEntity. The...
I'll be giving my talk on Searching Business Data with MOSS Enterprise Search at the Tulsa SharePoint Developer's User Group on March 10th. This is the same presentation I gave at TechFest, but I have updated it some and will likely also cover...
I tend to write the most about things that I am currently working with. Today I have been working with the Business Data Catalog (BDC) again and I thought I might point out how to configure a default action because it isn't very well documented. A...
A while back I posted about SSPPC, a utility on CodePlex to import and export Enterprise Search settings. After using this utility more I thought I would post an update. Most of the troubles you might run into are during importing. Most of this is due...
So you just finished setting up Enterprise Search in your development environment and now your PM wants you to move it to test. You set up content sources, managed properties, scopes, etc. Hmm, you just need to click on the handy Copy My Search Settings...
Yesterday, a new MOSS 2007 SDK was released and I am pretty excited about it for a number of reasons. First, the documentation is a bit more complete. Secondly, there is a new CHM included called MOSS 2007 Technical Articles and How-tos. This new CHM...
Alright, so you managed to get some data in the BDC and you want to be able to enable Enterprise Search on it. Well this is one thing that the MOSS SDK actually has decent information. However, in my working experience I have found that a few things are...
Many of you have already heard me complaining about the tedious task of generating a schema for the MOSS Business Data Connector. Its a painful process and I always said there is no reason why it can't be automated. I wanted a product that I could...
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