Properties of file type dialogue box

• Extension – usually three or four characters. Should uniquely identify the current file type.
  For example, for *.docx files, you would type DOCX.
  You do not need to enter any other characters.
  This field is only available when adding a new file type to the list.
• Description - the description of the current file type, for example MS Word Documents

This file type is suitable for:

• Creating electronic records – leave this option unchecked to prevent a file type from being checked into Content Manager
• Content indexing – select for Content Manager to index the content of documents of this type
• Creating a longevity rendition – select for Content Manager Render to process documents of this type for long-term storage rendering to PDF format
• Image Processing (OCR text extraction) - select for Content Manager to automatically extract text from images of this document type and use document content indexing on the text. See CM24.2_IDOL_DCI_Install_Config.pdf for detail on setting up Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
• Compressing when adding to a Document Store – select for Content Manager to compress documents of this type the Content Manager document store

  NOTE: By default, Content Manager does not compress already compressed files of the following types: zip, zipx, tar, gz, tgz, jar, jpg, jpeg, docx, xlsx, and pptx.

This tab enables you to configure Content Manager to process additional renditions when adding or modifying documents of the selected file type.

See Renditions tab for the options.