Thank you for sharing this additional information.

The thick client and the web communicate with the server very differently, and that is one of the main reasons this has not been included in the web client. While the idea of “expand all” sounds like a useful function, the actual execution could be really costly from a performance and expectations perspective.

For example, if a user asked Meridian to “expand all” folders from the root folder of a vault with hundreds of thousands of folders and documents, this action will take a long long time to complete and it will also consume a lot of resources on the server (think CPU, memory, database queries, and more). This will result in a frustrating experience for the user that initiated it because the process will take a long time to complete and diminished performance for all other users.

Development is considering listing the number of sub-folders and documents and also show a ‘quick search’ of documents from which users can filter further. Would this help users to locate the documents they need?

Chris Tsangarides
Product Manager
Accruent

Thank you for your suggestion.

Development is currently reviewing your idea. Stay tuned for updates.

Chris Tsangarides
Product Manager
Accruent

Legacy ID: MER-I-56

Idea created at: 2018-Mar-27

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COMMENTS: Arjen Bos Apr 18, 2018 What is the use case behind this and how does it help the user? What is the user trying to archive by doing this?

Frank Mönkemeyer Sep 17, 2018 We are having usually at minimum 5 o 6 levels of folders in our configuration. So moving to Project area = 1 click Moving to project type = 1 click open country folder = 1 click open town folder = 1 click Open project = 1 click open sub project = 1 click moving to structure level 1 = 1 click moving to substructure level 1 = 1 click moving to substructure level 2 = 1 click moving to document type = 1 click This is very time consuming do you agree?

Matthias Peterka Feb 25, 2019 We have several levels in the folder structure. To drill down to the level with documents is very cumbersome. To have a better overview or to find a specific file in glance it is useful to have the full structure open.