DWG and DWF file types do not FTR?

Question

Hello, 
 I noticed that common file types such as PDF, DOCX and DGN all FTR but DWG and DWF do not. Is this by design or does this require additional configuration? 
 v15.4.1.325 HF 360 
 Regards, 
 Patrick

Gintautas · Accepted Answer

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

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