Essentially the file type of the given file. For example .mp4 .docx .xlsx .csv etc.
This is more often used to search for all documents of a certain type that have had activity against them. For example teams that deliver video content through SharePoint would want to know the activity statistics for videos.
This is often used in concert with the File Type Filter for Example:
Compare the most popular video formats in SharePoint.
- Filter to "File Type" = Video
- Pivot file extension on activity or engaged users.
Full Categorization List
| FileExt | FileType |
| m3u | Audio |
| m4a | Audio |
| mp3 | Audio |
| bacpac | Database |
| csv | Database |
| dat | Database |
| Data | Database |
| database | Database |
| db | Database |
| kml | Database |
| lrdata | Database |
| mdf | Database |
| metadata | Database |
| Model | Database |
| rar | Database |
| Shapefile | Database |
| xml | Database |
| zip | Database |
| doc | Documents |
| docx | Documents |
| dot | Documents |
| dotx | Documents |
| eml | Documents |
| eps | Documents |
| htm | Documents |
| html | Documents |
| ics | Documents |
| msg | Documents |
| one | Documents |
| onetmp | Documents |
| onetoc2 | Documents |
| pbit | Documents |
| pbix | Documents |
| Documents | |
| pot | Documents |
| potx | Documents |
| ppt | Documents |
| pptm | Documents |
| pptx | Documents |
| psd | Documents |
| swf | Documents |
| txt | Documents |
| wps | Documents |
| XLS | Documents |
| xlsm | Documents |
| xlsx | Documents |
| xltx | Documents |
| bmp | Image |
| CR2 | Image |
| cue | Image |
| dng | Image |
| gif | Image |
| img | Image |
| jpeg | Image |
| JPG | Image |
| jpg-large | Image |
| jpg_large | Image |
| lrcat | Image |
| lrcat-shm | Image |
| lrcat-wal | Image |
| lrfprev | Image |
| lrmprev | Image |
| lrplugin | Image |
| lrprev | Image |
| NEF | Image |
| png | Image |
| png-large | Image |
| raw | Image |
| tif | Image |
| tiff | Image |
| avi | Video |
| avi_1 | Video |
| flv | Video |
| H264-FGT | Video |
| m2v | Video |
| m4r | Video |
| m4v | Video |
| mkv | Video |
| MOV | Video |
| mp4 | Video |
| mpeg | Video |
| mpegindex | Video |
| MPG | Video |
| wav | Video |
| wmv | Video |