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For those of us using the SharePoint connector as part of our implementation, is there a way to filter by unmanaged objects? I am also having difficulty accessing the "Location" property when building views on folders that are being managed by M-

Talin

Hi,

We are a start-up and new M-Files client. As part of our implementation, it was determined that the best course of action would be to just promote documents one-by-one from SharePoint (using the connector) into M-Files. Folder objects were created to help assist with this effort. We have now promoted all of the folders, but are struggling with a few things:

  1. Is it possible to create views that filter based on SharePoint location? The property seems to exist on managed folder objects, but I can't seem to filter on this system property.
  2. Ideally, we would like to create a queue of documents that are pending promotion from SharePoint to M-Files. Is there a way to create a view that only shows unmanaged objects? Or filters out managed ones? Or is our best best to just create an "Unclassified" class, get everything into M-Files, and then manage the queue from there?

Any help is much appreciated - thanks!

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    Thank you all so much; I appreciate the quick reply. We will develop a workaround based on the limitations on external views.

    Finally, to address my other question, is there any reason that the "Location" property is not accessible via M-Files views, even once a document or object has been promoted? Ideally, we would be able to use this string (or substrings) as a filter for certain views. For whatever reason, nothing we do seems to work here.

    Thanks!

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    Location is a special built-in property that doesn't behave like normal properties in all aspects. You should be able to copy the path from the Location field to a separate text property and then use that text property in your view filter.

    For instance Property Calculator should be able to do the copy operation, but I think you would need to somehow touch each Folder object to have the value copied. Your M-Files reseller also has access to some consulting tools that would help to do this as a mass operation.

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    Location is a special built-in property that doesn't behave like normal properties in all aspects. You should be able to copy the path from the Location field to a separate text property and then use that text property in your view filter.

    For instance Property Calculator should be able to do the copy operation, but I think you would need to somehow touch each Folder object to have the value copied. Your M-Files reseller also has access to some consulting tools that would help to do this as a mass operation.

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