Hi all :-)
I am solving the problem of automatic (= not manually) export of members of document collection. I found here very old topis Doucment collections export - Clients - Forums - M-Files Community which is closed and on Support page this one Export Document Collection members (m-files.com) but there are no solution for me...
So I try to ask the community in this new thread.
What is problem:
Our users making and handling projects documents in M-Files vault but at the end of each phases of the project they need to export a set of documents for their customer. They are using Document collection which allows to "save" information about "this was the version exported in that phase", which is nice and usefull, of course. For me the Document collection is like a View from some point of view but as opposed to View for Document collection is not possible to make export (neither right mouse function Export nor drag'n'drop to HD folder).
What is the possibilities I am thinking about:
- To make a View where will be all Members of Document collection. I can create Lookups of Members via API, I can create View via API, but I am not able to find any Conditions which will results the View with documents equals to members of collection. I think that this is not possible but maybe??
- To make an even handler on event "Before Download" where for Document collections (and probably value YES in special attribute) I will walk through all members and one by one save to disk. This is only idea, I will start on this afterrnoon :-) But this seems good and usefull if no "hidden problem".
- To make a new menu item (UIX) for Export document collection. This should by more simple than point 2 but it needs special user interaction which is not good.
Any other idea, please?
Thx, JJ
PS: Some other difficulty is that there could by Collection in Collection :-(
