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Metadata Card Configurations - Groups

JasmineB
With the update to M-Files metadata card groups are managed differently, and now have the section of groups above the rules that you need to use the groups in. Is there suggestions on how to best manage these? I have been creating a new "Group" every time I want to use a new group on a rule, but wasn't sure if people are reusing there groups or perhaps what the best way of moving forward with these. I am not sure of any implications of reusing groups, but I have almost 50 already now, and only see that number increasing.

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  • I am surprised to hear that you connect the two. In my understanding Property Groups is a way of grouping properties and sometimes making those groups collapsible for the purpose of making the metadata card more user friendly. Grouping is not required or necessary and it is certainly not related to the number of rules. I rarely use groups and I believe the highest number I have ever used is 3 in a vault that has many rules. The primary reason has always been to be able to either group properties in a logical order and/or to be able to collapse groups of properties that are not used in the majority of use cases but still need to be there for certain rare purposes.
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  • I am surprised to hear that you connect the two. In my understanding Property Groups is a way of grouping properties and sometimes making those groups collapsible for the purpose of making the metadata card more user friendly. Grouping is not required or necessary and it is certainly not related to the number of rules. I rarely use groups and I believe the highest number I have ever used is 3 in a vault that has many rules. The primary reason has always been to be able to either group properties in a logical order and/or to be able to collapse groups of properties that are not used in the majority of use cases but still need to be there for certain rare purposes.
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