Client View

In M-Files client, When you select an object which has a workflow, you’ll find the Workflow Dashboard tab in the metadata card panel.

This tab contains:
  • The workflow name

  • The state colors legend

  • Buttons bar

  • Workflow graph view

In this tab you’ll be able to :
  • Cusomize the view and zoom

  • Darag and Zoom in/out the graph using the mouse wheel

  • Change dynamically the graph layout

  • Change dynamically the transition line type

  • Change object state by clicking on available selectable states

  • See state description, actions and conditions when ouse hover the state

  • See transition description and triggers when mouse hover the info icon

  • See workflow description

  • Get the denug data when necessary

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View buttons

Button

Action

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Whether to show the grid or not

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Whether to use dark or light background

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Trigger a zoom in such a way to fit all the graph

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Trigger a zoom in such a way to focus on current object’s state

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Trigger a zoom to a 100% scale

Layout buttons

Button

JSON name

JSON values

Action

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direction

TB, LR

Switch the graph layout direction from/to top to bottom/left to right

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align

NONE, UR, DR, DL, UL

Toggle graph alignment layout values

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tree

  • long or l

  • tight or t

Toggle graph tree layout type values

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acyclicer

true, false

Whether to enable cyclic layout or not, works only for cyclic graphs

Transition buttons

Button

JSON name

JSON value

Action

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Whether to highlight the history path or not

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Whether to shows transition labels or not

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  • linkType for Workflows

  • type for Transitions

step or s

Toggles transitions interponation types

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Same as above

linear or l

Description

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Same as above

basis or b

Description

Other buttons

Button

Action

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Reloads the workflow data and redraws the graph using default settings

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Displays workflow description

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Displays the debug window, this button is disabled if the debug option is disabled, see Enable debug mode