DWG and DWF file types do not FTR?

Hi Patrick,

I guess you can have any type of file associated with FTR engine.

To confirm the same please run below query on your database server and check how many file formats you have associated with the associated engine name:
SELECT f.file_ext format, e.engine_name engine
FROM m3_supported_ftr_formats sff
JOIN m3_formats f ON f.format_id = sff.format_id
JOIN m3_engines e ON e.engine_id = sff.engine_id
ORDER BY format

Also, please share if you are getting any error message for DWG or DWF while doing the FTR.

Hello Manav and thank you for the response. Below are the results of the query. How do we associate more file types to the FTR in 15.4.1? To answer your question about an error, if you mean do I receive an error when I add the file to the Document? No, the system simply does not attempt to FTR. If you mean when I search for the contents of the file using the full text search, then no I receive no error message here either. - Patrick

.DGN SPICER
.DOC.RTF.DOT.DOCM FTR
.DOCX FTR
.DOTX FTR
.DWG.RND SPICER
.HTM.HTML FTR
.JPG.JPE.JPEG.JWC.SKF OCR
.PDF FTR
.PPT.PPS.POT FTR
.TIF.TIFF OCR
.TXT.SQL.INI.LOG.PRN.FP2.FP4 FTR
.XLS.XLB.XLSM FTR
.XLSX FTR

Hello Manav and thank you for the response. Below are the results of the query. How do we associate more file types to the FTR in 15.4.1? To answer your question about an error, if you mean do I receive an error when I add the file to the Document? No, the system simply does not attempt to FTR. If you mean when I search for the contents of the file using the full text search, then no I receive no error message here either. - Patrick

.DGN SPICER
.DOC.RTF.DOT.DOCM FTR
.DOCX FTR
.DOTX FTR
.DWG.RND SPICER
.HTM.HTML FTR
.JPG.JPE.JPEG.JWC.SKF OCR
.PDF FTR
.PPT.PPS.POT FTR
.TIF.TIFF OCR
.TXT.SQL.INI.LOG.PRN.FP2.FP4 FTR
.XLS.XLB.XLSM FTR
.XLSX FTR

Manav, do you need anymore information from me before you can help me with a solution? Thanks - Patrick

Did Manav (or anyone from Bentley) respond?

I have the same need to add common file types to FTR.
Thanks.

Hello
Sorry for delayed reply. Which file formats should be FTR’ed is specified in table m3_supported_ftr_formats. Depending on file format different engines are used. FTR engine does not process these files and directly send them to FTR repository where they being index by windows indexing service. OCR processes image type files - it does read text from image format and puts txt file in FTR directory and then there are Spicer or Interplot (Depending on eB version) engines which processes drawing formats. SO this table contains relation between format and engine which needs to be updated manually if additional formats needs to be processed or if different engine is required to process one or other file type.
From results I can see that DWG is specified in this table and it should be processed by Spicer engine. If file does not appear in FTR repository please do check FTR queue as then job should be stuck in queue with error message, if it’s not the case then it means that file was uploaded to Document class which is not being FTR’ed.
As for DWF format, it’s not being FTR. You will need manually insert relation in this table between SPICER engine and DWF engine or specify this mime type next to DWG format.
Please have in mind that Spicer might not be able to process these kind of files and job will just get stuck in queue.
Please let me know if you need any help updating this table or more information on FTR functionality.

Cheers
Gintautas