Loading image files and user-defined data files

Overview

For example, Content Manager OnDemand supports AFP, Line, SCS, PDF, and XML data. However, Content Manager OnDemand is not limited to processing these types of data. Content Manager OnDemand provides the Generic Indexer and the User-Defined data type to support almost any other type of data that you want to store in the system. For example, you can configure the system to store scanned images such as TIFF or JPEG files, or to store word-processing documents. When a user retrieves one of the files from the system, Content Manager OnDemand automatically starts an image viewer or word-processing software to open the file or document.

Content Manager OnDemand provides the Generic Indexer so that you can index and store BMP, GIF, JFIF (JPEG), PCX, PNG, and TIFF files and other user-defined data. You specify the index data for the input files that you want to index with the Generic Indexer in a parameter file. The parameter file contains the index field names and values and identifies the input files that you want to process. You can create up to 128 index fields for each input file that you want to load into the system, providing many ways for users to query and retrieve documents. The number of index fields that you define usually depends on how your users retrieve documents from the system. For example, you might want to define index fields for the date and content of a scanned image, or the date, author, and subject or purpose of a user-defined data file.

To store images or user-defined data on the system, you must create index data for the input files. For user-defined data, you must also register the file type of the input file with Content Manager OnDemand. The file type determines the program that is started to open a file when a user retrieves one of the files from the system. The file type must also be registered with the client operating system. If your Content Manager OnDemand system supports client programs that run under different operating systems, then you must register the specified file type on all of the client operating systems.

Before you can load images or user-defined data into the system, you must define an application group to manage the storage of the files. You must define an application to specify the physical and logical attributes of the input files, and a folder to allow users search for and retrieve the files. The following section contains examples that show how to define image files and word-processing documents to Content Manager OnDemand. It provides an overview of defining the application group, application, and folder.