Registering file types

The BlueCielo IFilter that is installed by Meridian does not register any file types for content indexing by default. It is up to you to decide for which file types you want the IFilter registered so as not to conflict with other IFilters that you may have installed yourself. Individual file types can be registered with the Windows regsvr32 program.

To register a file type:

1. On the Meridian application server computer, open a Command Prompt window in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Cyco Shared\AutoVue folder.
2. Run the following command once to register the IFilter DLL:
   
   regsvr32.exe av_iFilter.dll
3. Run the following command once for each file type that you want to register:
   
   regsvr32.exe /n /i:<FileExtension> av_iFilter.dll
   
   For example, to register the AutoCAD .dwg file type, run:
   
   regsvr32.exe /n /i:dwg av_iFilter.dll

You can combine registration commands into a batch file to easily run them all and to provide a record of which file extensions have been registered as in the following example that registers the .dwg, .dxf, and .dgn file types:

regsvr32.exe av_iFilter.dll
regsvr32.exe /n /i:dwg  av_iFilter.dll
regsvr32.exe /n /i:dxf  av_iFilter.dll
regsvr32.exe /n /i:dgn  av_iFilter.dll

To unregister file extensions or the IFilter completely, run similar commands as shown in the following example:

regsvr32.exe /u /n /i:dgn  av_iFilter.dll
regsvr32.exe /u /n /i:dxf  av_iFilter.dll
regsvr32.exe /u /n /i:dwg  av_iFilter.dll
regsvr32.exe /u av_iFilter.dll

Note    The content indexes must be rebuilt before text that is filtered by the IFilter can be searched.