New Desktop UI Release 2022

You can Set the Metadata Card to Open only a single Window.. Then you can Open Metadata Card for an object in a separate Window and click another object it switches Preview and Metadata Card to the News object..

But i agree, please M-Files consider adding the Triple View to Desktop Client, Monitors are wide These days :D

Thanks for the advice. I found some info on setting the SinglePopupMode and will try that. If it works, I'll push it out to our users. That sounds like a reasonable workaround.

I noticed something else about this: when the metadata card is at the bottom, it takes two presses of the TAB key to get to the save button. In the right-hand position, I have to tab through every field in my card or use the mouse. In Oracle, we can set tab flows to put optional fields after the action buttons and get the user on to their next task quickly. 

I used another ECM product before M-Files, and the default behavior when updating a view full of files that needed metadata was to automatically select the next file in the view after each save. We could update a hundred files without ever touching the mouse after the first click. M-Files is great, but that's one feature I miss from their competitor's product. 

I'm looking at a view right now for a facility of ours that is unfortunately delinquent in putting away almost 2,000 files that need manually entered metadata. After the desktop changes, they may just give up on those and leave them at their current unfiled state. They'll still be able to find them, but it just adds to their already poor practices and may cause problems with retention policies for those docs. 

This concern was mentioned in the New Desktop webinar a month or two ago, so I know that M-Files is aware of it. It's a big enough UX problem for us that it would have failed our regression testing. 

Most of the above added for the consideration of the M-Files development team.

Thanks again for the reply, sweise!

Hi All,

Wondering if there are any "hidden" keyboard shortcuts for cycling between metadata card, preview, checked out, recent, etc. My team really likes the new interface because of its simplicity, but my power users miss having all the information available on the front page - thus requiring more clicks. Keyboard shortcuts would meet this need.

Thanks!

Very useful tip! I've been testing it and like the results. I found that the popped-out metadata cards maintain their link to the instance that spawned them, so working in two M-Files windows simultaneously is not a problem. For editing a bunch of files, this may be better than the toggled card because I can set it on another monitor, and it stays open. A few hundred users will be getting this registry key this week. Thanks again.

Hello together,

we have updated all our c# development and it's realy much easier like before. 

Now we look for all UIX apps. 

To have a harmony layout we try to take the same color and padding for button

and other things.Based on JQuery 3.6.0 and Bootstrap 4.4.1 everything is working fine. 

My questions:

1. Is there a restriction what kind of version we can use JQuery / Bootstrap?

2. Is there a color and padding guid for the new UIX like in developer-Portal [User Experience][Colors] ?

Our first samples look near by original.

We changed .btn border-radius to 0.1rem and padding to 0.375rem 1.1rem 0.375rem 1.1rem 

and button color like in the css following.

.btn {
	display: inline-block;
	font-weight: 400;
	color: #212529;
	text-align: center;
	vertical-align: middle;
	cursor: pointer;
	-webkit-user-select: none;
	-moz-user-select: none;
	-ms-user-select: none;
	user-select: none;
	background-color: transparent;
	border: 1px solid transparent;
	padding: 0.375rem 1.1rem 0.375rem 1.1rem;
	font-size: 0.9rem;
	line-height: 1.0;
	border-radius: 0.1rem;
	transition: color 0.15s ease-in-out, background-color 0.15s ease-in-out, border-color 0.15s ease-in-out, box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out;
}
.btn-outline-primary {
	color: #318CCC;
	border-color: #318CCC;
}

.btn-outline-primary:hover {
	color: #fff;
	background-color: #318CCC;
	border-color: #318CCC;
}

.btn-outline-dark {
	color: #000;
	border-color: #ababab;
}

.btn-outline-dark:hover {
	color: #fff;
	background-color: #318CCC;
	border-color: #318CCC;
}

Thanks a lot

Uwe

I'm glad that you found help from this setting! We are still considering other ways as well for showing the metadata and preview side-by-side, as there has been a lot of feedback around this issue.

Hi! At the moment, there isn't any new keyboard shortcuts, but the old ones are still working: https://www.m-files.com/user-guide/latest/eng/keyboard_shortcuts_in_m_files_desktop.html. However, I think you have an excellent point and we can definitely consider adding some keyboard shortcuts to the tabs and side panes.

Hello,

the first image is showing virtual folders.

By default, only 500 virtual folders are shown inside a view. It is possible to change this limit from the M-Files Admin client, from the following path:

Configurations > Advanced Vault Settings > Configuration > Search > Limits > Maximum Number of Virtual Folders

Actually one more keyboard shortcut that isn't mentioned in the user guide is Alt+Enter which pops-out the metadata card.

Hi Samuli,

thanks for information and help

Uwe