Add connections to the Business Data Catalog

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Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2007-05-22

Before you perform this procedure, confirm that:

  • You have read the topic Manage import connections.

  • Your system is running either the Standard or Enterprise version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

  • The application for the entity that you want to import has been registered in the Business Data Catalog, and the entity that you want to import is included in the application definition. For more information about application definitions, see Register business applications in the Business Data Catalog.

  • The user profile property that you want to map to the imported entity has been added to the user profile.

Important

Administrators must have access to the Shared Services Provider (SSP) administration site, and must have the Manage user profiles permission enabled to complete this procedure.

Imported entities are mapped to properties in the user profile, so that the values for the entity appear in the user profile for each user.

To add a connection to the Business Data Catalog

Use this procedure to add an import connection to the Business Data Catalog.

Add an import connection to the Business Data Catalog

  1. Open the administration page for the SSP, as follows:

    1. On the top link bar, click the Application Management tab.

    2. On the Application Management page, in the Office SharePoint Server Shared Services section, click Create or configure this farm's shared services.

    3. On the Manage this Farm's Shared Services page, there is a link to each SSP and links to the Web applications for each SSP. Click the link for the SSP that you want to open.

    You can also access the SSP by clicking the link to the Shared Services Administration home page in the Shared Services Administration section of Quick Launch.

  2. On the SSP home page, in the User Profiles and My Sites section, click User profiles and properties.

  3. On the User Profiles and Properties page, in the Profile and Import Settings section, click View import connections.

  4. On the View Import Connections page, click Create New Connection.

  5. On the Add Connection page, in the Connection Settings section, in the Type menu, click Business Data Catalog.

  6. In the Connection name text box, type the name of the connection.

  7. In the Business Data Catalog Entity menu, select the name of the business data type that contains the data field to import as a user profile property.

    You can type the name of an entity and then click the Check Type button to confirm the name. Alternatively, you can click the Browse button to select one of the available entities imported for your line-of-business applications.

  8. Under Connection, select Connect User Profile Store to Business Data Catalog Entity as a 1:1 mapping, and then select a profile property that maps to the business data type in the Return items identified by this profile property menu.

    -or-

    To import multiple items for the business data type, select Connect User Profile Store to Business Data Catalog Entity as a 1:many mapping, select a property to filter by in the Filter items by menu, and then click a property for the filter value in the Use this profile property as the filter value menu.