Tuesday, October 26, 2010

BCS Model not updated

Scenario:
I am working with a BCS Model and it is not picking up the change.

Solution:
While cache-ing is great for enterprise applications but sometime I hate it , specially during development , where we want to see the change with zero lag. Anyway I don't think so that's gonna happen. So we developers have our own tricks / steps to deal with it

Steps to Refresh BCS Model:
Assuming you are deploying using WSP package.

01. Retracted exisiting solution i.e. "myModel.wsp"
02. Navigate to BCS Service application and Deleted Model from everywhere
03. IISReset
04. Restarted "SharePoint Server Search 14" service
05. Deployed the new solution i.e. "myModel.wsp"
06. Navigate to BCS Service Application and add object permissions for your model
07. ( Optional ) Create/Upgrade the profile pages
08. Navigate to "Search Service Application" and re-crawl fully the Content Source using your Model
09. Once finished , Check the error log.
10. If all went smooth then checked the crawled properties, they should be there

2 comments:

Anonymous,  February 10, 2011 at 9:07 AM  

hi,
thanks for the post. For my case, it was enough with a iisreset and a restart og the sharepoint search server 14 service.

Dipesh10 June 23, 2011 at 5:53 PM  

I have one project List which is sharepoint BCS list with filter descripter companyID.When i am try to reading project list programetically passing with default value it not passing the value to the readlist .But from view if i pass default value it is working .Can you please help me to get this problem .Please let me know if anything else.
Regards,