What is covered in this article?
Overview
When documents tab has been enabled on forms in Apply, families can upload individual documents that do not exceed 10MB.
Why is this important?
Families create or have documents in a variety of formats and, as a result, we want to be sure you can get them easily by supporting the most common formats for documents, images and movies.
Document file types supported
The following files can be uploaded as attachments to a form in Enquiry Tracker:
| File Format | Description |
| .3gp |
A video format designed for older mobile phones, known for small file sizes and lower quality. |
| .avi | Audio Video Interleave. An older but common video container format from Microsoft that can hold various types of video and audio tracks. |
| .bmp | Bitmap Image File. A simple, uncompressed image format. It results in high-quality, lossless images but with very large file sizes. |
| .doc | The original document format for Microsoft Word (versions prior to 2007). |
| .docx | The modern, XML-based document format for Microsoft Word (2007 and newer), offering smaller file sizes and better stability than .doc |
| .flv | Flash Video. A video format once used for streaming on the web with Adobe Flash Player, now largely obsolete. |
| .gif | Graphics Interchange Format). An image format that supports short, looped animations and transparency. It's best for simple graphics due to a limited color palette. |
| .heic | High Efficiency Image Codec. The default image format for newer Apple devices (iPhones/iPads), offering similar quality to JPEG but with significantly smaller file sizes. |
| .heif | High Efficiency Image File Format. The underlying standard that .heic is based on; a modern container format for storing images and image sequences efficiently. |
| .jpeg | Joint Photographic Experts Group. The most widely used format for digital photos. It uses compression to create small, web-friendly files. |
| .jpg | Functionally identical to .jpeg, this is the most widely used format for digital photos. It uses compression to create small, web-friendly files. |
| .mkv | Matroska Video. A flexible container format that can hold multiple video, audio, and subtitle tracks in a single file, popular for high-definition video. |
| .mov | Apple's QuickTime video format, commonly used within the Apple ecosystem and for professional video editing. |
| .mp4 | The most popular and universal video format for web, streaming, and sharing. It provides an excellent balance between video quality and file size. |
| .mpeg | Moving Picture Experts Group. An older standard for video and audio compression, often referring to a family of formats that were predecessors to modern formats like MP4. |
| .odt | OpenDocument Text. A document format used by open-source word processors like LibreOffice and OpenOffice; a common alternative to .docx. |
| .ogg | An open-source container format, typically used for audio (Ogg Vorbis) but also capable of holding video. |
| (Portable Document Format) The universal standard for sharing documents. It preserves a fixed layout, ensuring the document looks the same on any device. | |
| .png | (Portable Network Graphics) An image format with lossless compression (no quality loss). Its excellent support for transparency makes it ideal for logos, icons, and web graphics. |
| .webm | An open-source video format sponsored by Google, designed specifically for efficient streaming on the web with HTML5 video. |