Valid File Types
File types that correspond to the Internet standard MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions).
MIME determines the way in which message formats are specified. A file type (content type) is defined in the basis type/subtype form according to the MIME concept.
You can assign one or more valid file name enhancements to each content type.
The specification of MIME types is for the exchange of data, especially multimedia Internet data of fundamental importance.
The following table shows the MIME types delivered regularly by SAP with the BW system.
Official MIME types are registered by the IANA ( Internet Assigned Numbers Authority). Private sub-types, received after being checked by the IANA, begin with vnd. (in the form vnd.company-type or vnd.type) or prs.
Subtypes for locally permitted file formats for the server begin with x-type.
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Basis Type |
Subtype |
Description |
Reference |
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Application Type for files that are linked to a specific program |
/acad |
AutoCAD file (by NCSA) |
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/dxf |
AutoCAD file (by CERN) |
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/mif |
Maker Interchange Format (Adobe FrameMaker) |
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/msexcel |
MS Excel file |
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/mspowerpoint |
MS Power Point file |
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/msword |
Microsoft Word |
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PDF file (Adobe Acrobat Exchange/Reader) |
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/rtf |
Microsoft RTF (rich text format) file |
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/vnd.ms-excel |
Excel file |
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/vnd.ms-powerpoint |
MS Power Point file |
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/vnd.ms-word |
Microsoft Word file |
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/winword |
Microsoft Word file |
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/x-javascript |
JavaScript file |
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/x-msmetafile |
WMF file |
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/x-sapshortcut |
SAP shortcut / session manager |
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/x-zip-compressed |
ZIP file |
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Audio Type for sound files |
/x-pn-realaudio-plugin |
RealAudio Plugin file |
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Image Type for graphics files In Web applications, you can use the types /jpeg and /gif for the display in the same browser window (IS_INPLACE) (see Single Document). |
/bmp |
Icon |
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/gif |
GIF (graphics interchange format) graphic |
RFC2045, RFC2046 |
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/ico |
Icon (Windows) |
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/ief |
Image Exchange Format |
RFC1314 |
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/jpeg, /jpg, /jpe |
JPEG (standard format graphic from the Joint Photographic Experts group). |
RFC2045, RFC2046 |
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/tiff |
TIFF(Tag Image file format) graphics |
RFC2302 |
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/x-rgb |
RGB graphics |
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/x-windowdump |
X-Windows dump |
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Text Type for text files |
/calendar |
RFC2445 |
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/css |
CSS style sheet file |
RFC2318 |
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/enriched |
RFC1896 |
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/htm, /html |
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) |
RFC2854 |
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/javascript |
JavaScript file |
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/plain |
Simple text |
RFC2646, RFC2046 |
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/richtext |
MIME Rich text |
RFC2045, RFC2046 |
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/xml |
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) |
RFC3023 |
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Video Type for video files |
/avi |
Microsoft AVI video |
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/x-msvideo |
Microsoft AVI video |
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/x-sgi-movie |
Microsoft SGI video |
You can create additional, customer-specific MIME types. For more information, see Editing Valid File Types.