I created the BDC with four column email,city , state etc
maped to 1:1 based on WorkEmail. But someregion “Number of profiles using this property” = 0 at view profile properties (this is only for properties that are coming from BDC).

Whereas for other properties (comming from AD) “Number of profiles using this property” = is not zero.
I think, i am missing something here. Really apprecate your input.

Thank you
Kanta

thanks for illustrative blog. I am importing User profile details from Oracle database to populate some user information like Company_Desc etc in string format. It's throwing following exception in SharePoint logs and doesn't import any information using BDC.

Shall appreciate your help.

Profile Import: Exception occured when importing user: '******'. Microsoft.Office.Server.ApplicationRegistry.Runtime.RuntimeException: “The field named 'COMPANY_DESC' and described in the TypeDescriptor for the Return parameter was not returned by the backend system”. —> System.IndexOutOfRangeException: COMPANY_DESC at System.Data.ProviderBase.FieldNameLookup.GetOrdinal(String fieldName) at System.Data.OracleClient.OracleDataReader.GetOrdinal(String name) at System.Data.OracleClient.OracleDataReader.get_Item(String name) at Microsoft.Office.Server.ApplicationRegistry.SystemSpecific.Db.DbEntityInstanceEnumerator.get_Current() — End of inner exception stack trace — at Microsoft.Office.Server.ApplicationRegistry.SystemSpecific.Db.DbEntityInstanceEnumerator.ge…
06/01/2009 09:09:53.58* mssdmn.exe (0×0B98) 0×0DCC SharePoint Portal Server User Profiles 90gz Exception …t_Current() at Microsoft.Office.Server.ApplicationRegistry.SystemSpecific.Db.DbEntityInstanceEnumerator.System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerator<Microsoft.Office.Server.ApplicationRegistry.Runtime.IEntityInstance>.get_Current()

My guess is that there is a formatting problem with the string field that is being returned from the database. I might suggest converting it to a date format from the database side which will ensure that .NET layer that BDC uses can properly interpret it. For Microsoft SQL Server, the syntax would be like this:

select cast (datestring as datetime) from table

Again, depending on the format, you may need to manipulate to get it into a mm/dd/yyyy (or dd/mm/yyyy depending on your region). The T-SQL Substring function works well for tasks like this.

If this is not it, I would suggest turning on verbose logging, doing the import and trying to see where the problem is occurring. Hope this helps.

Do you have any idea about this?

<TypeDescriptor TypeName=”System.String” Name=”Birthdate” />

This field is not mapping to the date no year field of my user profile…

Thanks