I’ve been looking into the Document Processing → Restore Original / Sync File Names With Object Title action in Extension Kit for M-Files and I can restore original file names or sync file names with previous object titles. The documentation shows how to configure wildcards to scope which files are affected — but it doesn’t mention anything about selecting a specific version based on workflow state (for example: restore the last version where workflow status was “Freigegeben”/Approved).

My question:
Is there a way to target a specific version for restore (e.g. the last version that had workflow status = Approved), not just the latest version matching a wildcard?

Here’s what I understand so far:

• The “Restore original” action works on the current object and just reverts files in a first run to the last document which wasnt a PDF. Second run on the same object just restores a PDF...

• The configuration options are limited to filename wildcards — no built-in parameter appears to specify a target version number or a property filter like workflow status.

So the question is:

Does Extension Kit offer a way to select/trigger a restore for a specific historical version based on workflow status or version metadata (e.g. Approved)?
Or is the only way to achieve this via standard M-Files rollback or a custom combination of versioning + property rules?

Would love to hear if someone’s configured this or has ideas how to implement it cleanly.

Cheers

Daniel

We use the "Source property" to store the created object ID back into the source object – which works well with CreateObject. However, this option is missing when using UpdateObject, even though the logic (e.g. to store the updated object reference) would also make sense.

Can you confirm:

1. Is this intended behavior or a limitation?

2. Is there a way to store the updated object ID (like with CreateObject)?

3. If not, could this be considered for future releases?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Jeremias Zirngast
IMCT AG