Creating a New Document Vault

Video: New Document Vault

Before you begin

If you want to create a new vault in a language other than the currently selected software language, you must first change the software language and restart the M-Files Server service via Windows Task Manager before creating the vault. For instructions on changing the software language, see Selecting the Software and Vault Language.
Do the following steps to create a new document vault:

Steps

  1. Open M-Files Admin.
  2. In the left-side tree view, expand the desired connection to M-Files Server.
  3. Select Document Vaults in the left-side tree view.
    The Document Vaults list is opened in the right-side pane.
  4. Click New Document Vault... on the task area.
    The Document Vault Properties dialog for a new vault is opened.
  5. In the Name field, enter a name for the new document vault.
  6. Use the Primary language and Secondary language drop-down menus to select the primary and secondary languages for full-text search features.

    These selections affect, for example, the way inflected or irregular forms of words or compounds are dealt with in searches. If the document vault is to contain material in several languages, it is recommended to select the language that is used most as the primary language and a less commonly used language as the secondary language.

    Selecting a language or languages improves the probability of finding the right search results. Even if a certain language was not selected as the primary or secondary language, the full-text search will nevertheless return results if words in this language were used in the search.

  7. Optional: Click Import... to change the vault icon to facilitate finding the right vault in case you are using multiple vaults.
    1. In the Change Icon dialog, select an item from the list or click Browse... to search for a different icon.
    2. Click OK once you have selected the new icon.
      You can revert back to the default icon by clicking Use Default.
  8. Optional: Change the advanced settings on the Advanced tab.
  9. Click OK once you are done.

Results

You should now have created the document vault and it should appear on the left-side tree view of M-Files Admin under Document Vaults.
Note: When you create a document vault, M-Files automatically creates an ID for it. The ID can be changed later in the Document Vault Properties dialog of the vault by clicking the Change Unique ID button.

What to do next

After you have created the vault, the users of the vault must add a connection to it via M-Files Desktop settings. For instructions, see Adding a Document Vault Connection.

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Last updated 10/2016