How to add the AutoCAD DWG Icon to SharePoint WSS, MOSS
Your SharePoint sites may have DWG files loaded in the document libraries allready. Your SharePoint install does not recognize these files, displaying a default icon with the files.
Here is how to add a DWG icon to SharePoint to install with your DWG Files.
Example of DWG icons:
Add DWG Icon to search results in MOSS / WSS 3.0 or SPS 2003 / WSS 2.0
To make your DWG document libraries and your DWG search results look nice, you may want to add a DWG Icon to your WSS/MOSS.
Adding the DWG Icon is not part of the DWG IFilter 2007 install; you can follow these steps to get it done:
1. Select an Icon to go with your DWG files. For this example I'll assume this is DWGicon_full_2007.gif.
2. Copy the icon gif on all the SharePoint web servers into the images location (use '60' folder for WSS 2.0 and SPS 2003, or use '12' for WSS 3.0 and MOSS)
“c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\60\Template\Images”
“c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Template\Images”
3. On your Sharepoint web servers, locate and edit file “docicon.xml” at location
“c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\60\Template\Xml” .
“c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Template\Xml” .
4. In docicon.xml, add the following line under section "<ByExtention>" (It’s in alphabetically order, and where dwg1.gif is your gif file name)
<Mapping Key="dwg" value="DWGicon_full_2007.gif" OpenControl=""/>
5. Add the file type within SharedServices Administration, in Sharepoint (MOSS only)
a. Sharepoint admin\SharedServices Admin\Search Settings\File Types\ -->Add file types
b. Full Update on the Search content indexes
6. Do an iisreset on all Sharepoint Web Servers.
And please do not forget to try the DWG IFilter!
The CAD & Company DWG IFilter enhances your DWG-in-SharePoint experience by making the DWG content available in your SharePoint search results.