Corey Roth [MVP]

Oh my god - I just spent a few hours trying to find this solution! - The german translation of the error speaks of a hostwebsite (ridiculously the error message is in english)

Thank you very much for finally giving me this :)

Hello,

I have no Search Service on my site...

How can I access to my _bdc Folder?

How the Profile Page's URL is it built?

Thanks.

@Pogo The profile page URL is built once you configure the URL on your service application.  The _bdc folder is autogenerated once you create a profile page.

Does anyone have steps to perform this via powershell?

Please find details on the PS steps to create the profile page.

Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -erroraction SilentlyContinue

# Create the profile page

$url = "http://gr06"

$context = Get-SPSite $url | Get-SPServiceContext

# Do not use these commented out constructors. There is currently a bug in the BdcServiceApplicationProxy contstructor where the AppId is not set.

# Therefore, the ProfileProvisioner constructor doesn't get called with a valid bdcproxy object. It's not obvious that there was a problem until the CreateProfilePage call.

# At which point there is an error message: Exception calling "CreateProfilePage" with "2" argument(s): "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

#$bdcproxy = New-Object Microsoft.sharePoint.BusinessData.SharedService.BdcServiceApplicationProxy

#$profileProvisioner = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.ProfileProvisioner($bdcproxy, $MetadataStore)

$profileProvisioner = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.ProfileProvisioner($context)

$res = $profileProvisioner.CreateProfilePage("Microsoft.Lobi.OracleModel","employee")

so, i've created the standard display/edit/new forms on an external content type list.  i've also created a profile page as a default action on the ect in question.  i am trying to accomplish two things with this setup:

1.) have the default link from the readlist be to the profile page, rather than the display form - i do not want to use the display form at all. i'd like all content type interactions to occur from the profile page, as it displays all pertinent data (i.e. associations, attributes, etc.)

2.) from the profile page, have two links for both editing the current content type instance and a link for creating a new instance of the content type in question.  i want the two links i just described to use the standard edit/new forms already created for the ect list.

how can i accomplish either one of these goals?  i'm finding that editing default webparts (specifically the readlist) is quite difficult and not at all straightforward.  any help would be greatly appreciated on this.  thanks.

Does anyone tried to change the profile page url? Does it work?

For example, instead of having:

dsglespbr-s4019/.../Articles_DEV_2.aspx{0}

change it for:

dsglespbr-s4019/.../Articles.aspx{0}

@Josep I think that should work.

In my project, Profile Page is enabled for search and search result page gives the list items with ...\profilepage url. Now client does not want search to be displayed in profilepage, instead wants these search URLs to point to EditForm web part. I have used custom web part developed in silverlight for Edit.

How can I do this in 2010?

@Chintu go to your BCS service application, edit the bcs connection and you will be able to create a custom action.  Create a new action with a URL that points to your Silverlight edit page.  Make sure it is the default action and then recrawl.

Thanks much for the article - made my day after multiple hours of trying figuring it out

Hi Corey,

I am using sharepoint 2010 Business connectivity service. I need to search an item in the database. So I configured search service. I am able to find the search results but when I clicked on the results , the URL starts from bdc3:// instead of going to profile page. The error showed on the page is "web page cannot be displayed". Please guide me to resolve this problem.

Appreciate your help.

@sireesha If you can search the data, you may just need to reindex after you have created the profile page.  If it works correctly, you will see the profile page URL in the crawl logs.

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"Finally it names a page after the entity itself.  So far, I’m not sure if any of the page name stuff is configurable or not, so I need to look into that"

Have you been able to look into this?

I use search.asmx for searching, and the returned Title, Path and Filename properties all point to the Products_1.aspx page instead of the fields from the BDC datasource.

The page name displayed in the search results is indeed configurable from SharePoint Designer. Open your external content type, click any one of your fields that you would like to be set as the search title and click 'Set as Title' in ribbon. Bingo!