Single-File and Multi-File Documents

In M-Files, you can create multi-file or single-file documents.

A multi-file document usually contains several files, i.e. files that together with the metadata constitute one multi-file document. You can view the contents of a multi-file document by double-clicking it. In other words, a multi-file document is a fixed entity that contains several document files. For example, it is a good idea to include a proposal and its attachment in the same multi-file document.

You can later convert a single-file document to a multi-file document and vice versa. For more information, refer to Convert to Single-file Document.

Multi-file document and single-file Word documents in the listing view.