About excluded file extensions

You can process the documents while excluding file extensions. When you process documents with excluded file extensions, you can view documents with the excluded file extensions in Inspect but the excluded documents cannot be promoted. In addition, excluded documents do not count towards search hit counts, including in Search Hit Reports.

To specify which extensions to exclude during processing, in Project Settings, under Processing Settings, provide the file extensions in the Excluded File Extensions field. During processing, if an excluded extension is encountered for a parent document or stand alone document, the system sets the Document State field of the document to Excluded Extensions. The affect of the exclusion to child documents is as follows.

  • If a parent document has an excluded extension, all child documents of that parent are also excluded, regardless of their extension. The parent and its child documents show Document State set to Excluded Extensions. In this case, you cannot promote the parent or child documents.

  • If the parent document extension is not an excluded file extension but the extensions of one or more child documents are excluded file extensions, the system processes the parent and child documents because it identifies only the parent document extension as an excluded file extension. In this case, you can promote the parent and its child documents.

  • Bloomberg data comes in the form of.xml and.zip formats. Although the.zip extension may be part of the excluded file extension, the system does not identify the Bloomberg data as an excluded file extension.

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