You must be a Business Administrator to add or modify formats. Applications typically change their internal file format only occasionally. Eventually, older file formats are no longer readable by the current version of the software. You should create new format definitions (with appropriate names) as the applications change so that you can later find the files that are in the old format and bring them up to date. The system does not do any checking of the type of file that is checked into a format. For example, a word document with a .doc extension can be checked into a format defined for HTML files. This means that formats can be used to define directories for the checked in files of a business object. A business object can have many file formats and they are linked to the appropriate type definition by the policy definition. for more information, see Policies. |