

Install and activate the document converter you can further configure the document converter using the Central Administration user interface.įor more information about the command line command to which document converters must respond, see Document Converter Run Command in SharePoint Server 2010 (ECM).įor more information about deploying document converters, see Document Converter Deployment in SharePoint Server 2010 (ECM). Package the executable file, along with a document converter definition file, as a Feature that can be deployed and activated at the Web-application level. The basic steps to develop a custom document converter are as follows:Įnsure document conversion is enabled for your Web application.Ĭreate an executable file that can be called by using a specific command line command. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 includes an extensible framework for you to enable your own custom document converters for the document libraries in a Web application. Perhaps you want to convert draft documentation into a different, final format for long-term archiving or perhaps you need to convert your internal documentation to a different format for placement on a customer-facing site. Using document converters, you can transform your content into different versions to suit your business needs. For example, a document converter might take a Microsoft Excel 2010 file and use it to generate a file. A document converter is a custom executable file that takes a document of one file type, and generates a copy of that file in another file type.
