Supported viewers
IBM® Content Navigator supports multiple document viewers. However, not all viewers are supported on all repositories or on all platform configurations. In addition, each viewer supports different file types.
Remember: You can also use plug-ins to add other viewers
to the IBM Content Navigator web
client.
The following table shows which viewers are supported on each
repository.
| Viewer | Supported on IBM Content Manager Enterprise Edition | Supported on IBM Content Manager OnDemand | Supported on IBM CMIS for FileNet® Content Manager | Supported on IBM FileNet P8 |  Supported on Box |
Provided with IBM Content Navigator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Reader viewer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No. You must download Adobe Reader from Adobe and install it on each client workstation. |
| AFP viewer |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No. You must register and configure the AFP Viewer plug-in by using the IBM Content Navigator administration tool. To use the AFP Viewer with an IBM Content Manager OnDemand repository, each client workstation also needs the AFP Viewer browser plug-in to be installed from the IBM Content Manager OnDemand Web Enablement Kit installation directory. |
| AFP2PDF conversion viewer | No | Yes | No | No | No | No. The AFP2PDF conversion viewer must be installed before you can use it to view documents. If the viewer is not installed, contact your IBM representative about how to obtain and install the AFP2PDF viewer. |
| Ajax viewer | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Applet viewer | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Box viewer |
No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| HTML conversion viewer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| IBM Content Collector viewer | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| IBM Daeja™ ViewONE Professional viewer | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual viewer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Line data applet viewer | No | Yes | No | No. If you configure the IBM FileNet Content Federation Services plug-in, you can also view federated CFS-OD line data documents in the line data applet viewer. |
No | No. The line data applet viewer is available in your IBM Content Manager OnDemand Web Enablement Kit installation directory. |
| Line2PDF conversion viewer | No | Yes | No | No | No | No. The Line2PDF conversion viewer must be installed before you can use it to view documents. If the viewer is not installed, contact your IBM representative about how to obtain and install the Line2PDF viewer. |
| No viewer |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PDF conversion viewer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Web viewer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No. The browser viewer is part of the web browser, so it is always available. |
Supported file types for each viewer
When you configure IBM Content Navigator, you create one or more viewer maps to specify which viewer to use to view the different file types in your repository. Each viewer supports a specific set of file types. However, some of the viewers that work with IBM Content Navigator are not supported on every server platform or client platform that IBM Content Navigator supports. In some cases, IBM Content Navigator can automatically select a different viewer to use if another viewer is included in your viewer map. This behavior is called the fallback behavior, and the second viewer is called a fallback viewer. The second viewer must be included in your viewer map to be used as a fallback viewer. You can include multiple fallback viewers in your viewer map.
The fallback behavior for each viewer includes information about the conditions under which IBM Content Navigator uses the fallback viewer, if a fallback viewer is configured in the viewer map.
Important:
- The Applet viewer is the only viewer that supports overlays on MO:DCA documents. You cannot view overlays on MO:DCA documents for any other viewers.
- Java Applet based viewers are deprecated.
Adobe Reader viewer
- Supported file types
- PDF (application/PDF).
- Fallback behavior
- None. IBM Content Navigator does not support a fallback behavior for the Adobe Reader viewer. However, you can configure other viewers to open PDF documents.
AFP2PDF conversion viewer
- Supported file types
- AFP (application/afp).
- Fallback behavior
- None. IBM Content Navigator does not support a fallback behavior for the AFP2PDF viewer.
AFP viewer
- Supported file types
- AFP (application/afp)
- application/vnd.ibm.modcap
- application/x-vnd.ibm.scs
- Fallback behavior
- You can install and configure the AFP2PDF conversion viewer to use as a fallback viewer for the AFP viewer. Also, if the AFP viewer plug-in is configured, but the AFP Viewer browser plug-in is not installed on the client's workstation, the AFP2PDF conversion viewer is used as the fallback viewer for documents in an IBM Content Manager OnDemand repository.
Ajax viewer
- Supported image formats
- Bitmap (image/bmp)
- CALS (image/cals)
- DCX (image/dcx)
- DICOM (image/dicom)
- GIF (image/gif)
- JFIF (image/jfif)
- JPEG
- (image/jpeg)
- (image/jpg)
- PCX (image/pcx)
- PNG (image/png)
- TIFF
- (image/tif)
- (image/tiff)
- Supported Lotus® formats
- Lotus 1-2-3
- application/vnd.lotus-1-2-3
- application/x-lotus123
- Lotus Freelance
- application/vnd.lotus-freelance
- application/x-lotus-freelance
- Lotus Word Pro
- application/vnd.lotus-wordpro
- application/x-lotus-wordpro
- Lotus 1-2-3
- Supported Microsoft Office formats
- Microsoft Excel (application/vnd.ms-excel)
- Microsoft PowerPoint (application/vnd.ms-powerpoint)
- Microsoft Word (application/msword)
- Supported OpenDocument formats:
- Graphics
- application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics
- application/x-vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics
- Presentations:
- application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation
- application/x-vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation
- Spreadsheets:
- application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet
- application/x-vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet
- Text documents:
- application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
- application/x-vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
- Graphics
- Supported text file formats
- RTF
- application/rtf
- application/x-rtf
- text/richtext
- RTF
- Other supported formats
- PDF (application/pdf)
- Line data (application/line)
- Fallback behavior
If IBM Content Navigator is deployed on Linux for System z®, the Ajax viewer cannot open nonimage content, such as Microsoft Office documents or Lotus documents. If you want to use a fallback viewer, you must include in your viewer map at least one other viewer that can open these supported document types.
Applet viewer
- Supported image formats
- Bitmap (image/bmp)
- CALS (image/cals)
- DICOM (image/dicom)
- GIF (image/gif)
- JPEG (image/jpeg)
- PCX (image/pcx)
- PNG (image/png)
- TIFF (image/tiff)
- Supported Lotus Office formats
- Lotus 1-2-3
- application/vnd.lotus-1-2-3
- application/x-lotus123
- Lotus Freelance
- application/vnd.lotus-freelance
- application/x-lotus-freelance
- Lotus Word Pro
- application/vnd.lotus-wordpro
- application/x-lotus-wordpro
- Lotus 1-2-3
- Supported Microsoft Office formats
- Microsoft Excel (application/vnd.ms-excel)
- Microsoft PowerPoint (application/vnd.ms-powerpoint)
- Microsoft Word (application/msword)
- Supported text file formats
- RTF
- application/rtf
- application/x-rtf
- text/richtext
- RTF
- Other supported formats
- PDF (application/pdf)
- Supports overlays on MO:DCA documents
- Fallback behavior
- IBM Content Navigator uses a
fallback behavior in the following cases:
- If Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE) is not installed on the client, the applet viewer cannot open documents. If you want to use a fallback viewer, you must include in your viewer map at least one other viewer that can open these supported document types.
- If the client is not a Windows 32-bit or 64-bit operating system, the applet viewer cannot open nonimage content. If you want to use a fallback behavior, you must include in your viewer map at least one other viewer that supports nonimage content.
Box viewer
- Supported document file extensions
- 'as', 'as3', 'asm', 'bat', 'c', 'cc', 'cmake', 'cpp', 'cs', 'css', 'csv', 'cxx', 'diff', 'doc', 'docx', 'erb', 'gdoc', 'groovy', 'gsheet', 'h', 'haml', 'hh', 'htm', 'html', 'java', 'js', 'less', 'm', 'make', 'ml', 'mm', 'msg', 'ods', 'odt', 'odp', 'pdf', 'php', 'pl', 'ppt', 'pptx', 'properties', 'py', 'rb', 'rtf', 'sass', 'scala', 'scm', 'script', 'sh', 'sml', 'sql', 'txt', 'vi', 'vim', 'wpd', 'xls', 'xlsm', 'xlsx', 'xml', 'xsd', 'xsl', 'yaml'
- Supported image file extensions
- 'ai', 'bmp', 'gif', 'eps', 'jpeg', 'jpg', 'png', 'ps', 'psd', 'svg', 'tif', 'tiff', 'dcm', 'dicm', 'dicom', 'svs', 'tga'
- Supported audio file extensions
- 'aac', 'aifc', 'aiff', 'amr', 'au', 'flac', 'm4a', 'mp3', 'ogg', 'ra', 'wav', 'wma'
- Supported video file extensions
- '3g2', '3gp', 'avi', 'm2v', 'm2ts', 'm4v', 'mkv', 'mov', 'mp4', 'mpeg', 'mpg', 'ogg', 'mts', 'qt', 'wmv'
- Fallback behavior
- IBM Content Navigator supports a fallback behavior if in your viewer map, you include at least one other viewer that can open these supported document types.
HTML conversion viewer
- Supported image formats
- Bitmap (image/bmp)
- CALS (image/cals)
- DICOM (image/dicom)
- GIF (image/gif)
- JPEG (image/jpeg)
- PCX (image/pcx)
- PNG (image/png)
- TIFF (image/tiff)
- Supported Lotus Office formats
- Lotus 1-2-3
- application/vnd.lotus-1-2-3
- application/x-lotus123
- Lotus Freelance
- application/vnd.lotus-freelance
- application/x-lotus-freelance
- Lotus Word Pro
- application/vnd.lotus-wordpro
- application/x-lotus-wordpro
- Lotus 1-2-3
- Supported Microsoft Office formats
- Microsoft Excel (application/vnd.ms-excel)
- Microsoft PowerPoint (application/vnd.ms-powerpoint)
- Microsoft Word (application/msword)
- Supported text file formats
- RTF
- application/rtf
- application/x-rtf
- text/richtext
- RTF
- Other supported formats:
- PDF (application/pdf)
- Fallback behavior
- None. IBM Content Navigator does not support a fallback behavior for the HTML conversion viewer.
IBM Content Collector viewer (ICC viewer)
- Supported XML formats
- application/icc-acl-atom+xml
- application/icc-activity-atom+xml
- application/icc-activity-trash-atom+xml
- application/icc-attachment-atom+xml
- application/icc-blog-atom+xml
- application/icc-board-atom+xml
- application/icc-bookmark-atom+xml
- application/icc-comment-atom+xml
- application/icc-forum-atom+xml
- application/icc-forum-topic-atom+xml
- application/icc-link-atom+xml
- application/icc-media-atom+xml
- application/icc-network-atom+xml
- application/icc-profile-atom+xml
- application/icc-recommend-atom+xml
- application/icc-reportingChain-atom+xml
- application/icc-status-atom+xml
- application/icc-tag-atom+xml
- application/icc-version-atom+xml
- application/icc-wiki-atom+xml
- Fallback behavior
- None. IBM Content Navigator does not support a fallback behavior for the ICC viewer.
IBM Daeja ViewONE Professional viewer
- Supported image formats
-
- Bitmap (image/bmp)
- GIF (image/gif)
- JPEG
- (image/jpeg)
- (image/jpg)
- (image/pjpeg)
- PNG (image/png)
- TIFF (image/tiff)
- Supported email formats
-
- MSG (application/vnd.ms-outlook)
- (application/x-filenet-filetype-msg)
- (message/rfc822)
- Supported FileNet Image Services formats:
-
- application/x-cold
- application/vnd.filenet.im-cold
- application/vnd.filenet.im-image
- application/vnd.filenet.im-other
- Supported Microsoft Office formats (requires ViewONE Office Module):
-
- Microsoft Excel (application/vnd.ms-excel)
- Microsoft PowerPoint (application/vnd.ms-powerpoint)
- Microsoft Word (application/msword)
- Supported Office Open XML formats (requires ViewONE Office Module):
-
- Presentations (application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.document)
- Spreadsheets (application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet)
- Text documents (application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
- Supported OpenDocument formats:
-
- Presentations:
- application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation
- application/x-vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation
- Spreadsheets:
- application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet
- application/x-vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet
- Text documents:
- application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
- application/x-vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
- Presentations:
- Supported StarOffice formats:
-
- Calc (application/vnd.sun.xml.calc)
- Impress (application/vnd.sun.xml.impress)
- Writer (application/vnd.sun.xml.writer)
- Other supported file formats:
-
- PDF (application/pdf)
- Fallback behavior
- IBM Content Navigator uses a
fallback behavior in the following cases:
- If Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is not installed on the client, the IBM Daeja ViewONE Professional viewer cannot open documents. If you want to use a fallback viewer, you must include in your viewer map at least one other viewer that can open these supported document types.
- If the client is not a Windows 32-bit operating system, the IBM Daeja ViewONE Professional viewer cannot open nonimage content. If you want to use a fallback behavior, you must include in your viewer map at least one other viewer that supports nonimage content.
IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual viewer
- Supported image formats
-
- Bitmap (image/bmp)
- GIF (image/gif)
- JPEG
- (image/jpeg)
- (image/jpg)
- (image/pjpeg)
- PNG (image/png)
- TIFF (image/tiff)
- Supported email formats (without attachment viewing)
-
- MSG (application/vnd.ms-outlook)
- (application/x-filenet-filetype-msg)
- (message/rfc822)
- Supported FileNet formats:
-
- FileNet banded FAX Group III
- FileNet uncompressed
- Supported Microsoft Office formats (requires ViewONE Office Module):
-
- Microsoft Excel (application/vnd.ms-excel)
- Microsoft PowerPoint (application/vnd.ms-powerpoint)
- Microsoft Word (application/msword)
- Supported Office Open XML formats (requires ViewONE Office Module):
-
- Presentations (application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.document)
- Spreadsheets (application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet)
- Text documents (application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
- Other supported file formats:
-
- PDF (application/pdf)
- Fallback behavior
- IBM Content Navigator supports a fallback behavior if you include in your viewer map at least one other viewer that can open these supported document types.
Line data applet viewer
- Supported image formats
- Line data (application/line).
- Fallback behavior
- None. IBM Content Navigator does not support a fallback behavior for the line data applet viewer.
Line2PDF viewer
- Supported image formats
- Line data (application/line).
- Fallback behavior
- None. IBM Content Navigator does not support a fallback behavior for the Line2PDF viewer.
PDF conversion viewer
- Supported image formats
- Bitmap (image/bmp)
- CALS (image/cals)
- DICOM (image/dicom)
- GIF (image/gif)
- JPEG (image/jpeg)
- PCX (image/pcx)
- PNG (image/png)
- TIFF (image/tiff)
- Supported Lotus Office formats
-
- Lotus 1-2-3
- application/vnd.lotus-1-2-3
- application/x-lotus123
- Lotus Freelance
- application/vnd.lotus-freelance
- application/x-lotus-freelance
- Lotus Word Pro
- application/vnd.lotus-wordpro
- application/x-lotus-wordpro
- Lotus 1-2-3
- Supported Microsoft Office formats
- Microsoft Excel (application/vnd.ms-excel)
- Microsoft PowerPoint (application/vnd.ms-powerpoint)
- Microsoft Word (application/msword)
- Supported text file formats
- RTF
- application/rtf
- application/x-rtf
- text/richtext
- RTF
- Other supported formats:
- PDF (application/pdf)
- Converting line data documents to PDF within an environment that utilizes IBM Content Manager OnDemand and IBM Content Navigator does not currently support using the PDF Conversion Viewer to facilitate the required conversion. You can bypass this restriction by creating a customized IBM Content Navigator viewer plug-in using the ODWEK Java API. You can do this by reviewing the available viewer customization documentation located in the IBM Knowledge Center or engage the IBM Lab Service team.
- Fallback behavior
- IBM Content Navigator uses a
fallback behavior in the following cases:
- If the Adobe Reader plug-in is not installed on the client, the PDF conversion viewer cannot open documents. If you want to use a fallback viewer, you must include in your viewer map at least one other viewer that can open these supported document types.
- If IBM Content Navigator is deployed on AIX® or Linux for System z, the PDF conversion viewer cannot open nonimage content, such as Microsoft Office documents or Lotus documents. If you want to use a fallback behavior, you must include in your viewer map at least one other viewer that supports nonimage content.
Web viewer
- Supported image formats
- All file types.
- Fallback behavior
- None. IBM Content Navigator does not support a fallback behavior for the web viewer.
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