External Repository Users
When you connect a document vault to an external repository using the Intelligent Metadata Layer technology, users in the external repository are imported to M-Files Server.
The External Repository Users view in M-Files Admin allows you to manage and refine associations between M-Files users and external repository users. When you associate an M-Files user with an external repository user, the M-Files user inherits the access rights of the external repository user. This way you can refine the access rights of an M-Files user to external repository content.

Depending on your connector configuration, automatic associations between M-Files users and external repository users may be established in external repository connections. See Automatic Association for more information.
Complete the following steps to associate an M-Files user with an external repository user:
- Open M-Files Admin.
- In the left-side tree view, expand a connection to M-Files server.
- Expand Document Vaults.
- Expand a vault.
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Select External Repository Users.
Tip: If the list contains a large number of items, you might want to filter it. To filter the view, open the View menu and click Filter. Enter a desired text to filter the column contents.
- Double-click an external repository user.
- To associate an M-Files user with the selected external repository user, click the Add... button.
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Select the M-Files user or users that you want to associate
with the selected external repository user and then click
Add.
You can select more than one item at once. Hold down the Ctrl key to select multiple individual items or hold down the ⇧ Shift key to select adjacent items on the list.
- Click OK to close the User Properties dialog.