Feature Request: grid search filter

[dmainprize]

Just started using batchpatch, very impressed. I would like to suggest adding a filter on the grid view. I sync with AD and it pulls in say 1,000 computers. I would love to be able to find all of them that start with A-111-, or any machine name that ends with -Office. It beats having to scroll down to that or use the find, since the find only goes to the first result.

[doug]

When you say “since the find only goes to the first result” could you elaborate? I’m not sure what you mean. If you use the “find” feature, it will go to the first result, but if you continue to press enter or click “find” it will step to each result in the order that it finds them. Does this give you what you need?

We will consider a find/filter option for a future build.

Thanks,

Doug

[BP-Griesser]

I’was just searching for this feature. A filter field for columns would be a big enhancement for me too. I do not have 1000 computers but many different environments. All of them are listed in an Excel-Table with many category columns. I put them with ‘concatenate in Excel’ together as a BatchPatch import string as described. The categories go to ‘Notes’ ‘Notes2’ ‘Description’ ‘Location’.

In ‘Description’ i put everything i need to identify the system like this:

Server Description / (IP-Adress – OS – SystemGroup)

The ‘SystemGroup’ is the most important. It would be great if i can write the name of a group in the column header to filter.

My solution now is to filter the systems in Excel and import the result in separate tabs and if i have job for all systems put all systems in its own tab too.

Just to complete this, filtering should be possible on

Host, MAC, Notes, Notes2, Description, Location, Category

and filtering type

simple string, each word, any word, exact string, …..

Thank you for the great tool and your time to read and think about user ideas.

If you need more information or something is not clear, please ask.

fine day, best regards

André

[doug]

Thanks for the feedback, André. In the meantime have you considered putting SystemGroup as the first instead of last item in the column? This way you could at least use the sort feature to effectively sort on SystemGroup. Having IP address and OS before SystemGroup in the same column would make this impossible. Anyway that’s just a thought to consider for now since there is not currently a filter option.

-Doug

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