I have a database table with a list of URLs that I would like Sharepoint Search 2013 to index so they show up in search results - the URLs are a mixture of content types - web pages, Word documents, PDFs, etc.
All the URLs are internal to my network but aren't Sharepoint pages or files stored in Sharepoint.
I am using Sharepoint 2013 Enterprise Search on a Windows 2008 R2 server.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to achieve this?
I have searched for options but can't seem to find anything relevant - BDC and BCS have come up a lot but seems to be more indexing content returned by the connector. What I want to do is to use the data returned from the table as pointer to items to be indexed.
I'm very new to Sharepoint and Sharepoint Search and am at a bit of loss on how to go about this (to make it even more difficult I would like to apply ACLs to the results, and the ACLs are in another table but that's another question!). Given my experience level I would like the answer to be as basic as possible if you can, but any help would be apprecieated.
BDC and BCS is the proper way to do it, but it's very complicated. If you want something simple, create a small script that writes all the URLs to a single HTML document. Then use the web crawler to crawl this document. It will follow the links and crawl the content.