{{tag>Programmers_Reference Methods IDOCEngineClient_Interface}}

======canHaveExternalResources ()======

**Interface:** [[3500:0600:0610|IDOCEngineClient]]
<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.