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title: "General property and ontology files"
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description: "Learn about general property an ontology files in Zilliant CPQ."
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# General property and ontology files

Zilliant CPQ uses specific files to store and maintain application system properties and support ontology-based customization of the application.

## Access properties and ontology files

1. From the application left navigation area:
  - In the classic view, select **Administration**.
  - In the new UI, select **Settings** > **Administration**.
2. From the top navigation bar, select **Content Management** .
3. Select **conf**.

Important

The **conf** folder is required by the system. Do not delete this folder.

1. Download the properties file you want to configure.
2. Use a text editor to make and save changes.
3. Upload the file.

The **conf** folder contains the following file types:

- **.properties**—General property files for Zilliant CPQ. For example, **application.properties**.
- **.n3**—Mapping files to find the .owl files.
- **.owl**—Ontology files located in **/conf/ontology** folder.

Note

For more information, consult with your Zilliant representative or your implementation team.

### Files in the conf folder

- **application.properties**—Main properties file. It contains the properties for starting up a Zilliant CPQ tenant.
- **email-content.properties**—Provides keys to customize the content of notification emails, such as approval and routing emails.
- **location-mapping.n3**  and **location-mapping-to-empty.n3**—Use to find the exact path to the ontology .owl files.
  - **location-mapping.n3**—A key mapper to map file’s unique identification (URI) to its location.
  - **location-mapping-to-empty.n3**—Use when starting a tenant application.
- **schema.owl**—Entities definition and their relationship.
  - Contains Classes (Business Types, BT), Data Attributes (Business Data Attribute, BDA) and Relation Attributes (Business Relation Attributes, BRA) definitions.
  - Contains meta attributes (Business Meta Attributes, BMA) that are used together with BDA and BRA.  

Additional ontology concepts can be defined in **application-schema-ext.owl** to further customize the product based on customer needs. (Examples: legacy BDAs, SPARQLs, custom data points.)