 Microsoft Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
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Specification rules support the incorporation of attachments into documentation generated by the Document wizard through use of Microsoft Word's OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) document standard.
This occurs when the Include in Documentation? checkbox is enabled, which is available on the Application Profile landing page and on the specification form itself.
Supported file types are included in the output Word file as follows:
- Industry standard image file types (JPGs, GIFs, PNGs, BMPs, etc) — Embedded as images.
- PDFs — Inserted as OLE objects, if Adobe Acrobat is installed on your local system. Only the first page of the PDF is viewable in the output Word document (this is a limitation of Acrobat's OLE implementation).
- Microsoft RTF, DOC, and DOCX files — Contents are inserted in the output document. (Formatting in the output document might not correspond precisely to the formatting in the attached file when the styles in the template for the generated document are applied to the attachment contents.)
- Microsoft Office files types (such as Excel, PowerPoint file types) — Inserted as OLE objects, if the underlying Office program is installed on your local system.
Unsupported file types:
- File types that can contain executable file types (such as bat, jar, exe, pif, zip, and others)
- In these cases, the Include in Documentation? checkbox is disabled.
