{{tag>Index Programmers_Reference, Methods IDOCEngineClient_Interface canhaveexternalresources}}

====canHaveExternalResources ()====
<code java>public boolean canHaveExternalResources () </code>

This method must return true if documents of the new type can have resources that are stored outside of the document file itself – for example, HTML documents can have image files stored separately whereas MS Word documents are self-contained.

===Parameters===
none

===Returns===
true if a document can have resources stored outside of the document file or false otherwise.