Implementing document filters for unsupported files

This section describes how to implement a custom document filter for file types that are not even supported by Sybase Search Content Adapter.

For a file system document store or a passive (Web) document store, implement your custom document filter by:

  1. Adding the MIME type and extension of the new document file type in the MimeTypeMap.xml file.

  2. Passing the new MIME type and extension to the correct Stellent filter in the DocumentFilters.xml file.

For a database document store, the default content-type detector is not capable of recognizing new document file types. For recognizing the new document file type, you can either: