DocumentConverter Element (Document Converter)

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Specifies the definition of a document converter.

<DocumentConverter
  Id="Text"
  Name="Text"
  App="Text"
  From="Text"
  To="Text"
  ConverterUIPage="Text"
  ConverterSpecificSettingsUI="Text"
  ConverterSettingsForContentType="Text"
/>

Attributes

Attribute	Description
Id	Optional Text. Specifies the globally unique identifier (GUID) for this document converter.
Name	Optional Text. Specifies the document converter name.
App	Optional Text. Specifies the short name of the document converter executable file.
From	Optional Text. Specifies the file name extension of the original file to be passed to the document converter. Do not start the file extension with a period.
To	Optional Text. Specifies the file name extension of the converted copy that the document converter produces. Do not start the file name extension with a period.
ConverterUIPage	Optional Text. Specifies the file name of the .aspx page to display to users to specify conversion options for the selected document.
ConverterSpecificSettingsUI	Optional Text. Specifies the file name of an .ascx control to host on an existing converter configuration page. Use the control to add configuration options to the existing page.
ConverterSettingsForContentType	Optional Text. Specifies the file name of the .aspx page to display to enable administrators to set configuration settings for this converter, per site content type.

Child Elements

None.

Parent Elements

Elements Element (Document Converter)

Example

The following example is the document converter definition file for a custom document converter that converts files of the File Type A format to the File Type B format.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
  <DocumentConverter ID="{3f8ae156-93dc-46de-bcb3-0a89416a20b3}"
    Name="FileTypeA to FileTypeB"
    App="FTA2FTB.exe"
    From="fta"
    To="ftb"
    ConverterUIPage="FTA2FTB.aspx"
    ConverterSpecificSettingsUI="FTA2FTBConfig.aspx"
    ConverterSettingsForContentType="FTA2FTBConfig.ascx"
  />
</Elements>

See Also

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