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"Enable automatic permissions via this property" selection is not available

Last updated on 15 March 2023

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Overview

In some occasions user may see when creating a new property definition or when editing an existing one, the setting "Enabled automatic permissions via this property" is missing in property definition properties in some vault(s).

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Solution

The common reason for this kind of behavior is that Extended metadata-driven permissions are not enabled in the vault properties (right-click vault in M-Files Admin - Properties - Advanced tab)

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More information about this setting is in the M-Files user guide: Document Vault Advanced Properties (m-files.com)

If the vault has been created for an old M-Files server (version 8.0 and older), this setting is not active by default. The setting could have also been manually disabled when during vault creation.

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