Overview
When saving email attachments from the M-Files ribbon in Microsoft Outlook from "Save attachments to M-Files" tab it is expected behavior for the metadata name of the email attachments to be auto populated. Upon seeing the metadata card you will notice that the name or title is still empty.
Sample Case
Cause and Reason
The reason this is happening is because the user is saving multiple attachments at once. This creates a multi-file document as shown in the screenshot above "Multi-file document (3 Files).
Solution
The default functionality can be changed so, that each attachment is stored separately, and naming is taken from the attachment.
The functionality can be change with the following registry key.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Motive\M-Files\<version>\Client\MFOfficeAddin]
"SaveOutlookAttachmentsAsSFDs"=dword:00000001
With this enabled, multiple attachments are saved as single file documents. The functionality is like saving multiple emails. The metadata card is shown for each attachment, the values can be prefilled from previous metadata card, some documents can be skipped etc.
