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M‑Files details, right inside Teams and Outlook

See the M‑Files record behind the link

An M‑Files link pasted into Teams or Outlook shows the record's title, description and icon, and in Teams it brings buttons that open it. You can also search M‑Files from the chat, and see only what your permissions allow.

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A Teams chat message sending a supplier agreement for review. Under the message, the pasted M-Files link is shown by CtrlConnect as a card with the document's icon, its name, its class and a short description, and Open, Show, Metadata and Web buttons.

M‑Files comes to the chat and the inbox

Know what you have been sent

Someone pastes an M‑Files link into a Teams chat, and the chat shows which record it is: its icon, its title and a line of description, with buttons that open it in M‑Files.

The same details in Outlook

An M‑Files link pasted into an email shows the record's icon, title and description in Outlook, so whoever reads the email can tell what the link leads to before clicking it.

Find it while you write

While you write, you can search M‑Files from the message box and put the record you need straight into the message, without going to M‑Files to find it and copy its link.

Find the document from where you are writing

You are writing to a colleague and need the document you worked on this morning. Search M‑Files from the message box, pick the document, and it is in the message. Search tabs narrow the results to one kind of record, such as documents or projects.

CtrlConnect search in a Teams chat, with All, Documents and Projects tabs and the matching M-Files records, each with its icon and the kind of record it is.
Each result shows the record's icon and what kind of record it is.

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On the desktop and the phone, with the buttons you choose

It works on the phone as well

CtrlConnect runs in the desktop, web and mobile Teams clients, so the colleague who reads the chat on a phone gets the card and the search too.

A co-authoring button with CtrlShare

When a document is out for co-authoring through CtrlShare, the card carries a button that opens it there.

Your administrator chooses the buttons and the tabs

Your administrator decides which buttons the card carries and which search tabs people get, so the card and the search match the work your people do.

What it needs to run

  • Any M‑Files edition, in M‑Files Cloud or on-premise, with M‑Files 25.1 or later on the server and in the clients.
  • Azure AD (Entra ID).
  • M‑Files Classic Web, protected with HTTPS.

Tell us what your people do in Teams

We ask which records your people send each other most, and how they reach them today, then show CtrlConnect on that kind of record in a chat like yours.

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Questions about CtrlConnect

What does the person I write to see?
A card under the link with the record's icon, its title and a short description, and buttons. The buttons are configurable: Open, Show, Metadata, or a button that follows a URL taken from the record's own metadata. When a document is in OneDrive through CtrlShare, the card can also carry a co-authoring button.
Does it work in Outlook as well?
Yes. An M‑Files link pasted into an email shows the record's details in the mail: its icon, its title and a short description. The link itself opens the record in M‑Files.
How do people search M‑Files from a chat?
From the message box: click the CtrlConnect button or mention the bot by name, type, and pick the record. The search also works from the Teams commands bar. Search tabs are set up per use case, such as documents or projects, and each narrows the results to that kind of record.
Can people see records they have no access to?
No. People sign in through Teams and Azure AD, and every search and every card runs as the signed-in person against M‑Files. Each person sees only what they are allowed to see, on the card as well as in the search results.
Do we need FancyLinks for the card?
No. A plain M‑Files link is enough, and the card appears under it. FancyLinks is a separate product, free to use, in the M‑Files client: your administrator defines link templates, and people pick the kind of link they want for a record and paste it wherever they need it.
Can we also bring files from Teams into M‑Files?
Yes, with CtrlSync, which takes files out of Teams and SharePoint into M‑Files with their metadata. CtrlConnect itself works inside the chat and the mail: the card for a pasted link, and M‑Files search from Teams.
How do we try it?
The trial runs 30 days, like every CtrlDocs product. We demonstrate CtrlConnect and help set up a demo environment so you can try it yourself. We answer the same working day.

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Dashboards and UI that make M‑Files yours

Record pages, forms, boards and dashboards inside M‑Files, set up around your own records for any process. Open a project, a customer or a document and see everything that belongs to it.

See CtrlPortals 

CtrlShare

Co-author in Office on any M‑Files, cloud or on-premise

Open an M‑Files document for colleagues and outside parties to edit together, in desktop Office or the browser. It comes back to M‑Files as a new version.

See CtrlShare 

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AI for your M‑Files vault, cloud or on-premise

Ask your M‑Files vault in plain words. CtrlScout finds the records, counts and charts them, summarises documents, drafts the email and suggests the details for a new document. It only sees what you can see.

See CtrlScout 

CtrlProcesses

Show your people how the work is done, inside M‑Files

Your Elements.cloud process maps inside M‑Files. Every step leads to its procedure, the record it produces and the standards that apply.

See CtrlProcesses 

CtrlTeams

Microsoft Teams, governed from M‑Files

Start a project in M‑Files and its team in Microsoft Teams is ready, with the right people in it and your folders and templates in place. What they write there is kept in M‑Files.

See CtrlTeams 

CtrlSync

Teams and SharePoint, filed with metadata and rights

People work in Teams or SharePoint, and the documents you want kept are copied to M‑Files with metadata, filed under their project with the access rights preserved.

See CtrlSync 

CtrlTime

Time tracking where the work happens

Record hours in a calendar inside M‑Files, on the customer or project they belong to. Approved weeks feed payroll, invoicing and project follow-up.

See CtrlTime 

FancyLinks

M‑Files links with the details built in

M‑Files links that show which document and which version they point to, and open it directly. Free to use.

See FancyLinks