New Desktop UI Release 2022

History does not seem to work on the bottom panel. Only on the right panel as metadata card view

Hi! Toggling metadata card location to the bottom pane is something that will be missing as such from the new UI. This also applies to the history dialog, where it was previously possible to switch metadata card location to the bottom pane. In the new UI, the preview and metadata card can be toggled from the history dialog's side tab.

Hi Samuli,

What do you mean exactly?

We use the switch metadata card location frequently, because when properties are hidden, you cannot see them on the right panel (which is used by the customer), but still can see them on the bottom pane.
This helps us to find out if something is not working as expected which relies on one of those hidden properties

Agree, this is a key function. Whether we show the metadata card in the bottom isn't relevant though. It could also be a function (only available for sys admin) that ignores any "hidden" rules on the metadata card. This would even be better than the current functionality because users can currently activate the bottom view and edit read-only fields...

Totally agree with that!

But as a sys admin, you should be able to toggle it, so that you can also view how an end user views the metadata card.

You can also disable metadata card configurations with a client-side registry setting, this might help in troubleshooting scenarios. The setting is mentioned in section 6 of the metadata card configuration guide:

Hi Joonas,

I am aware of this setting, but it is cumbersome compared with just toggling the metadata card.

Do I understand correctly that you’re not foreseeing this feature anymore?

Hi also agree with people. The bottom card pane is a key tool to admin debugging.
In the new ui presentation, when I asked M-Files if there will be an equivalent tool available in the New UI, I got no answer. Very sad.

Hi also agree with people. The bottom card pane is a key tool to admin debugging.
In the new ui presentation, when I asked M-Files if there will be an equivalent tool available in the New UI, I got no answer. Very sad.

Hi,
If you allow a comment, using of bottom pane for metadata card is an often-used function at our company, but not only for system admin users.
We are a bookkeeping office and we have to check the content of metadatas to based the uploaded invoice preview, so that is important thing to see both of pane at the same time. Certainly we could open the metadata card in new window, but it is some further extra clicks per invoices.
It would be usefull for us, if we could reach this settings anyway at the new UI.

Thanks,