Legacy installation

Here we present the Web-UI installation in M-Files.

In our example, we deploy the Web-UI in an environment with:

  • Operating system : Windows Server 2016 Datacenter
  • M-Files
  • A Tomcat9 server
  • ARender Web-UI version 2023.3.0
  • Have a Functional Rendering. So just follow this documentation.

Steps to Configure the Rendition

  • Place the arondor-arender-mfiles-connector-1.0.5.jar under rendition-engine-package-2023.3.0/modules/RenditionEngine/client_libs
arondor-arender-mfiles-connector-1.0.5.jar
  • Since 4.8.8, you will need to add under rendition-engine-package-2023.3.0/modules/RenditionEngine in application.properties the following property: authorized.urls=http://localhost/REST/
application.properties
  • Start the ARender Rendition server

Steps to install the Web-UI

Using the username and password previously provided (contact arender-sales@arondor.com if you want access), you can recover the version of the web application used in WAR format here.

Use the Tomcat9 server. You just need to deploy your war (arondor-arender-hmi-2023.3.0.war into and to rename it arondor-arender-mfiles.war), now place it there :

  • Program Files
    • Apache Software Foundation
      • Tomcat 9.0
        • webapps

Copy the previously downloaded arondor-arender-mfiles-connector-1.0.5.jar connector, place it under arondor-arender-mfiles-2023.3.0\WEB-INF\lib.

Afterwards :

Warning
You need to edit different values of the arender-server.properties file depending on your M-Files vault configuration

Steps to deploy ARender on M-Files

  • Unzip ARenderApp.zip with 7zip ARenderApp.zip
  • Open dashboard.html
  • Change UI URL by the UI version you deploy (in this example it is a 4.8.7) mfiles mfiles
  • Open your M-File safe
  • Install the ARenderApp.zip in your vault apps. ARenderApp.zip

mfiles ( M-Files Admin -> choose your safe -> right clic -> Applications -> Install )

  • Log out of the vault and log back in to ensure changes are accounted for

Steps to open a document with M-Files

  • Restart the IIS server

mfiles

  • Start the Tomcat9 server
  • Access M-Files under M:\

mfiles

  • Select your safe
  • Drag and drop a document to open it with ARender

mfiles