M-Files User Survey - How are we doing?

Related to User adoption the main problem I have found is try to introduce them the concept of Metadata and what is instead where is, but users commonly are creating multifiles documents to manage "Their" files and the concept of "related files" under the concept of folders instead the concept of relations.

The problem is when is necesary to roll back these multidocuments to a single document with the correct relations using the right classes, because all documents share the same metadata, the documents in the multidocument can not be isolated on by one to assign them the correct class, the workaround now is just delette all documents, convert the last document to single document and then upload the deleted documents again with the correct class to create the relations.

Could be easier if we could explode the multidocument in many single documents to assign correctly the class to each one and keep their versions and history without delete them.

Multi-Files / multifiles take up about 15 minutes in the "Intro to M-Files" new employee training I run each week. 

I invest this time because an incorrect multi-file can create the worst of headaches. 

During the "How to Share" portion of the training, I have the user take the training document they've created and I get them to Right Click > Sharing, Email and PDF > Convert to PDF (add separate File) 

I get them to watch the magic happen where they now have a Word + PDF of their document under the new Green Book Icon = Multi-File. 

I then explain to them that the mutl-file is like a virtual-stapler - that anything in the multi-file ALWAYS travels together, and you cannot separate one of the documents. 

I tell them: "A multi-file is the SAME document, but in its different formats or variations"

I also directly tell them that they should not put different documents in a multi-file, so a Report is its own ID and a Proposal is its own ID etc. - but they can use different objects, like Projects, or Meetings, to help them group their documents together for this purpose. 

Honestly, this topic is worth spending more time on as soon as your employees start using M-Files. 

I also have a tip sheet on just using the multi-file, and I often share the video from M-Files. 

Finally, I have the worst-case scenario of "How to Fix a mistaken Multi-File" - it's a video where I demonstrate Checking out the bad multi-file, and then proceed to clone the original through the Right Click > Make copy function, and then proceed to do this as many times as needed until all the parts have been correctly split into correct document IDs. 

Your option also works, but I thought I would share if helpful. 

Multi-Files / multifiles take up about 15 minutes in the "Intro to M-Files" new employee training I run each week. 

I invest this time because an incorrect multi-file can create the worst of headaches. 

During the "How to Share" portion of the training, I have the user take the training document they've created and I get them to Right Click > Sharing, Email and PDF > Convert to PDF (add separate File) 

I get them to watch the magic happen where they now have a Word + PDF of their document under the new Green Book Icon = Multi-File. 

I then explain to them that the mutl-file is like a virtual-stapler - that anything in the multi-file ALWAYS travels together, and you cannot separate one of the documents. 

I tell them: "A multi-file is the SAME document, but in its different formats or variations"

I also directly tell them that they should not put different documents in a multi-file, so a Report is its own ID and a Proposal is its own ID etc. - but they can use different objects, like Projects, or Meetings, to help them group their documents together for this purpose. 

Honestly, this topic is worth spending more time on as soon as your employees start using M-Files. 

I also have a tip sheet on just using the multi-file, and I often share the video from M-Files. 

Finally, I have the worst-case scenario of "How to Fix a mistaken Multi-File" - it's a video where I demonstrate Checking out the bad multi-file, and then proceed to clone the original through the Right Click > Make copy function, and then proceed to do this as many times as needed until all the parts have been correctly split into correct document IDs. 

Your option also works, but I thought I would share if helpful.