Email and Attachment Count

Hey Jo,

I'm reaching out to some of our product and development resources to see if I can get an answer for you on this.  Thank you for your patience on getting a response back to you.

Tom

Thanks Tom - appreciate the update !

Hey Jo,

These emails are being dragged into M-Files directly, or through outlook folders?  If you're pulling them in through the folders, there is likely a setting in the configuration to extract the attachments and store them as a Multi-File Document.  Maintaining a count of the files in a Multi-file should be fairly easy.  Would this work for you?

Hi Tom, This could be a great solution for us to test. The emails are being dragged from outlook into a configured outlook folder that links to M-Files (but not into M-Files directly) - we have set it up this way only so we can automatically capture email data like subject, to from, cc date etc.

Hi Jo,

I'm not sure whether I understand exactly what you're doing, but are you aware of this automated option?
Automatically Populated Metadata (m-files.com)

Regards,

Craig.

Specifically the "save as type" can split out most attachments.  If this isn't splitting out attachments for you in some situations then that sounds like something that should be raised with support@m-files.com.

Regards,

Craig.

Hi Craig, We are currently using the Automatically Populated metadata as you have mentioned and this is working well, however I can't see any option that enables the number of attachments to be displayed in M-files.

That's true.  I assume you're saving the attachments separately?  I think Tom Humm and I were under the impression you were perhaps doing it differently.

I think the only way to do this would be some code.  This could perhaps be a calculated property that's added to all of your email classes, or it could be done through something more complex such as an event handler.  Either way: you'll need at least a small amount of code.

The code doesn't have to be complex, for example.  To list the number of files on an object the code needs to just be:

Output = Vault.ObjectOperations.GetObjectVersionAndProperties(ObjVer).VersionData.FilesCount

(You may need a "-1" in there to deal with the ".msg" file too!).

Regards,

Craig.

Hi Craig, Attachments could be saved with and without the email. In the testing I have done so far, I have only saved an email with multiple attachments, however it was not possible to see the number of attachments within M-Files. I am not familiar with event handlers or coding, but I can definitely look into both. Many thanks for your input.