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An action is simply an operation upon a selected item. The operation can retrieve information about the selected item, or it can launch a program or Web page with the selected item as a parameter.

Welcome back to Part 7 of our 8 Business Data Catalog (BDC) series. In this article, we will be focusing on the BDC Object Model.

In this article, the focus will be on configuring User Profiles to import properties from external systems via the BDC.

In this article, we will be focusing on BDC Search. Specifically we’ll be focusing on how to enable BDC Search, how to enable full and incremental crawls of BDC data sources, and how to create a search content source and search scopes.

In this Part 4, which is much less technical, the focus is two primary ways to consume BDC data through the UI. This will include Business Data Web Parts and incorporating Business Data into SharePoint lists.

Welcome to part three of our BDC series. In this article our focus will be on consuming Web Services from BDC. It will cover the value of Web Services, how to develop the Web Services to be BDC capable, and introduce how the Application Definition File describes these Web Services.

In this article, the emphasis will be on the Application Definition File (or ADF). We’ll make sure you have a good understanding of the role it plays, how it works, and a give you a good overview of the XML schema that is used.

Welcome to the first of an eight part series on the Business Data Catalog (BDC). While BDC is an enormously powerful tool, it’s also fairly complex and not well understood. This series is considered technical in nature and intended for SharePoint installers, administrators or developers.

This is the fifth article within the Customizing Search Series. This article continues to build out the customization of search using a new content source based on the BDC. When we previously setup a custom scope, we left the target search page as the default. Now, we will create a new search results page for the client scope which will then be used to customize the actual rendering of the search results.

Welcome to the fourth article in the customizing search series. This article, although one of the shorter ones, continues the journey in customizing search and builds upon the previous articles in this series.