https://ctrldocs.com/blog/ Articles from CtrlDocs about M-Files and the CtrlDocs add-ons. en https://ctrldocs.com/blog/ai-assistant-for-m-files/ https://ctrldocs.com/blog/ai-assistant-for-m-files/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT CtrlScout is an AI assistant inside M-Files. People ask it what they would otherwise ask a colleague, and the answer comes from the documents they are allowed to open, with its sources beside it. https://ctrldocs.com/blog/sovereign-ai-for-m-files/ https://ctrldocs.com/blog/sovereign-ai-for-m-files/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT What sovereign AI means when the AI reads your document system: where the processing happens, what the model may read, what is kept, and who decides. https://ctrldocs.com/blog/ctrlteams-microsoft-teams-governance/ https://ctrldocs.com/blog/ctrlteams-microsoft-teams-governance/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Teams is where projects start and files get shared, but it was not built to keep the record. CtrlTeams sets up each new team from a template and keeps its documents in M-Files. https://ctrldocs.com/blog/office-online-server-retirement/ https://ctrldocs.com/blog/office-online-server-retirement/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Microsoft retires Office Online Server on 31 December 2026. M-Files customers who co-author through it can move to M-Files Cloud, or co-author through OneDrive with CtrlShare. https://ctrldocs.com/blog/filtered-search-for-m-files/ https://ctrldocs.com/blog/filtered-search-for-m-files/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT CtrlPortals lets you find governance documents in M-Files by filtering on their metadata, switch between a chart and a list, and export or share the result. https://ctrldocs.com/blog/m-files-dashboards/ https://ctrldocs.com/blog/m-files-dashboards/ Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT CtrlPortals puts dashboards in the M-Files client. They read the vault and a SQL database live, so workflow counts, overdue items and sales figures need no Excel export. https://ctrldocs.com/blog/export-m-files-to-excel/ https://ctrldocs.com/blog/export-m-files-to-excel/ Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT CtrlPortals exports a filtered list view, or the data behind a plot, to an XLSX file that opens straight in Excel. It is not held back by the item limit on M-Files' own export. https://ctrldocs.com/blog/m-files-as-crm/ https://ctrldocs.com/blog/m-files-as-crm/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Customers, opportunities and the documents behind them already live in the vault. Here is what M-Files gives you as a CRM, and what CtrlPortals adds on top. https://ctrldocs.com/blog/user-friendly-m-files/ https://ctrldocs.com/blog/user-friendly-m-files/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT On its own, M-Files shows a list of records and the details of the one you pick. With CtrlPortals, that screen can also hold metrics, a calendar, comments, and instructions with buttons. https://ctrldocs.com/blog/m-files-solution-partner-of-the-year-2025/ https://ctrldocs.com/blog/m-files-solution-partner-of-the-year-2025/ Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT At the M-Files IMPACT Global Conference in Athens, M-Files named CtrlDocs its Solution Partner of the Year 2025. https://ctrldocs.com/blog/eu-time-tracking-law/ https://ctrldocs.com/blog/eu-time-tracking-law/ Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT What the European Working Time Directive sets out, why the Court of Justice ruled in 2019 that every EU employer needs a time recording system, and what that system has to do. https://ctrldocs.com/blog/employee-time-tracking/ https://ctrldocs.com/blog/employee-time-tracking/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT A remote team has no manager across the desk, so it depends on recorded hours. This is what a time tracking system must get right, and how CtrlTime records hours on the M-Files record the work belongs to. https://ctrldocs.com/blog/ctrlportals-collaboration/ https://ctrldocs.com/blog/ctrlportals-collaboration/ Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT A calendar, threaded comments, dashboards, documents and a knowledge base, all on the same screen as the M-Files data they belong to. https://ctrldocs.com/blog/m-files-march-23-update/ https://ctrldocs.com/blog/m-files-march-23-update/ Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT Our summary of the M-Files March '23 update: four defect fixes, plus Advanced Outlook Integration, M-Files Web Companion and a new built-in Share object type. https://ctrldocs.com/blog/co-authoring-for-professional-services/ https://ctrldocs.com/blog/co-authoring-for-professional-services/ Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT Legal and accounting teams write in the Word and Excel desktop apps, but M-Files lets only one person edit a document at a time. CtrlShare opens the document in OneDrive so the team can co-author it in those same apps. https://ctrldocs.com/blog/m-files-jan-23-update/ https://ctrldocs.com/blog/m-files-jan-23-update/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT What the January '23 update to M-Files Online changes: Smart Search language analysis, end of life for M-Files 2018, faster database optimisation and six defect fixes. https://ctrldocs.com/blog/first-danish-m-files-partner/ https://ctrldocs.com/blog/first-danish-m-files-partner/ Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT In March 2022 CtrlShare became our first product in the M-Files Solution Catalog, and CtrlDocs the first official M-Files Solution Partner in Denmark.