Overview

Class tables represent flattened metadata for each M-Files class. They enable:

• Reporting and analytics (join with corporate data).

• Staging controlled updates back to M-Files.

• Data quality remediation (normalization, enrichment, cleansing).

• Controlled migration / consolidation scenarios.

Key Building Blocks

• Synchronization core: - spMFSynchronizeMetadata - spMFSynchronizeClasses - spMFSynchronizeProperties - spMFSynchronizeSpecificMetadata

• Update surface: - spMFUpdateTableInternal - spMFUpdateTable_ObjIDs_Grouped - spMFUpdateObjectChangeHistory - spMFChangeClass

• Supporting functions / utilities: - fnMFObjectHyperlink - fnMFExcelObjectHyperlink - fnMFReplaceSpecialCharacter

Lifecycle Phases

1. Discovery / baseline extraction.

2. Structural verification (properties, lookups, aliases).

3. Controlled enrichment (computed columns, normalization).

4. Batch or incremental update cycles.

5. Monitoring & reconciliation (ProcessBatch logs, delta verification).

6. Ongoing drift management (new properties / value list changes).

Relationship to Existing Material

Older sections (blogs, example-scripts) are referenced in a consolidated way here. Eventually they can be deprecated where duplication exists.