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If you have two vault connections for the same vault, which one is used when you open M-Files link?

Last updated on 21 June 2022

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Overview

If you have admin and normal vault connections in the same vault, which connection is used when you open M-Files links?

Solution

M-Files links are opened into vault connections which is alphabetically first. For example, if you two vault connections like "Admin for Sample Vault" and "Sample Vault". Links are opened into "Admin for Sample vault" vault connection.
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If you want to open links into "Sample vault" vault connection, you need to rename one of the vault connections. For example, if you rename "Admin for Sample vault" vault connection into "XAdmin for Sample vault". Now "Sample vault" is first in alphabetically and M-Files links are opened into it.
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