By default the drawing canvas is white. This is good and preferable especially when you draw maps for process visualization. However, if you create a home screen or information pages that accompany central views, you may want to change the background to a color.
To define the background color follow these steps:
The canvas background color is displayed in the Designer and Map Preview only. It is not applied to the SVG file and therefore does not show in the PDF generation or print function.
You can also use the colors you have set for your vault with the M-Files UI Theme Editor. This way you perfectly enhance the appearance in the M-Files Desktop Client.
M-Files Process Maps can be configured to invoke an automatic reload of the shown data. This will re-evaluate all objects on the canvas and will recalculate all placeholders. This typically takes no longer than a second.
Note: Use this functionality only, if your map is used as a dashboard and it is expected that the underlying data is updated frequently.
M-Files Process Maps can be configured to invoke an automatic reload of the full map. This will load the map from the M-Files repository and it will pull the latest version of the map from the repository. This will also re-evaluate all objects on the canvas and will recalculate all placeholders. This typically takes no longer than 10 seconds.
Note: Use this functionality only, if your map is used as a dashboard and it is expected that the underlying data is updated frequently.