About document classes

An ImandrA repository can store any type of document: specifications, drawings, manuals, letters, email messages, calculations, digital photographs, scanned images, and so on. However, folder names, file names, and file extensions are often insufficient or too limited to adequately classify large quantities of documents. ImandrA allows you to classify documents by document classes according to their business purpose. This gives you complete freedom to name folders and files without regard to their format or native application. It also makes configuring ImandrA more logical because an ImandrA document class determines many characteristics of documents independent of their file type:

• Which properties are associated with different document classes
• Which users can access them

Different file types can be classified by the same ImandrA document class and a file in one format can be assigned to any one of many ImandrA document classes.

Configuring document classes is described in the following topics.