External content type based on OData is not crawlable

Hi all,
I followed instructions from this msdn article
How to: Create an external content type from an OData source in SharePoint 2013. I've created an external content type based on OData. I imported created bdcm file to BCS store in central administration. So the ECT is scoped to the farm. I could create
an External List and the data from OData service was displayed. But I couldn't get the ECT crawlable. When I try to add a new content source in Search Service Application and select Line of Business Data it isn't possible to select External Data Source. I
tried to add IDEnumerator method and RootFinder property to the ECT in order to get it crawlable without any luck.
External Content Types based on MS SQL are crawlable fine.
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Hi,
In order to use the ECT for search you have to manually edit it as it's not complete for use with search. The two most important ones to add are:
ShowInSearchUI
RootFinder
I experienced the same issue when creating an OData BCS model for my session at the SPC2012 conference and I think those were the two properties I was missing (in addition to cleaning up some other stuff).
Take a look at
MSDN for more information on BDC model properties, and take a look at Search Connector Framework Troubleshooting for SP2010 which shows some samples.
Let me know if you need more help and I can provide a copy of my OData model (which is against an SP2010 site)
Thanks,
Mikael Svenson
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