DWG IFilter 2007 - Support Pages & FAQ

 

Integrating DWG IFilter with your SharePoint site is much easier in this release. The configurator tool helps with this task.

Additionally you may want to add other goodies to your SharePoint sites to have a more complete Integration of your DWG files with SharePoint.

 

The automatic and the manual registration of DWG IFilter is described in: Installing DWG IFilter for WSS, MOSS 2007

Having completed this step, you will be able to get DWG and DXF files in your search results.

 

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: How to add the AutoCAD DWG Icon to SharePoint WSS, MOSS

After you complete this step you will have icons similar to our example file library at http://www.dwgifilter.com/Files.

Many projects are beeing done to implement a DWG and SharePoint combination. In some cases documentation is available on the integration of other file types. Many technical questions will be repeated in each implementation project, here are some links that may help you out:

- Wrox, explaining how to enable Search in WSS 3.0 and MOSS, http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-305251.html

- Mike Taghizadeh, explaining difference in built-in search capabilities, http://blogs.msdn.com/miketag/archive/2006/12/04/feature-comparisons-in-sharepoint-search-versions.aspx

- Windows Live, Colin Borrowman's blog lists the file types that are indexed with standard WSS 3.0 search capabilities: http://colinborrowman.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5BE1E6D14CDF840F!198.entry

 

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