Enterprise content management

Green SQL Server DBA Tips #2 – When logs and history records cause your database to growth and crash

How often do I come across this sort of problem when visiting clients? Even more with our customers’ service desk (support) SLAs. We turn up on a Monday morning and there are alerts from the weekend saying(…)

The lifecycle of a document is more important than the document itself

Most ECM projects start with the same question: How are we going to store our documents? It’s a reasonable question. After all, Enterprise Content Management is often associated(…)

Why search is the most underrated ECM feature

When organizations evaluate an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution, the conversation usually revolves around Artificial Intelligence, workflow automation, and integrations. Yet the feature employees use more than any other is rarely the one showcased in demonstrations or marketing(…)

Designing metadata cards that users like

Over the past few weeks, I’ve addressed philosophical questions related to enterprise content management (ECM), such as “What should be done?” and “Why?” Now, it’s time to focus on the “how.” When discussing user adoption of M-Files,(…)

M-Files Outlook Pro add-in configuration

In this blog post, I will outline the steps required to enable and configure the M-Files Outlook Pro add-in. This includes configuring Microsoft Outlook rules to automate email handling. It took me some time to configure the rules, as(…)

M-Files BD – Putting it together with the Visual Designer

After several posts of theory, it’s time to build something. In this post, I will walk you through a Visual Designer tutorial to create a complete Contracts dashboard on the M-Files Sample Vault. Therefore, no JSON editing is required(…)

M-Files BD – The Admin part

So far in this series I have covered what an end user sees, the anatomy of a dashboard definition, the seven widget types (scalar,(…)

After years of ECM projects, here’s how I do things differently nowadays

In IT, it is essential to stay up to date, as technology evolves at an ever-accelerating pace. As consultants, we constantly face new challenges, many of which extend beyond purely technical matters, while adapting to diverse contexts(…)

M-Files BD – Aggregations, reducers and series

In the previous post, I walked through the query side of the dashboard JSON: objectType, class, filters, date tokens. What I deliberately left out was the aggregation block, because it deserves its own post.

M-Files BD – Queries: objectType, class, filters, date tokens

In the previous posts of this series, I covered the anatomy of a dashboard definition and the seven widget types (KPI & gauge, line & area,(…)