Meshcentral: Bug Connect All on Multi monitor view

[OutbackMatt]

When a filter is made on the My Devices main tab, and the the multi-monitor view is selected
Then 'connect all' wants to open all computers with an active agent, even though only the filter list is shown.

If, however, I 'Select all' on the filtered list on the main 'My Devices' tab, then go to the Multi-monitor view and push 'connect all' only the visible (selected previous screen) are connected

(Thanks for your great work, and the weekend before Christmas too. My country, Australia has already shut down for a summer break)

[Ylianst]

Your welcome. I may have fixed this in MeshCentral v0.4.6-i, the "Connect All" button on the multi-desktop view should now only connect to devices that you see on the screen. Let me know if that works -Thanks.

[OutbackMatt]

Sorry, the above feedback was AFTER I upgraded to v0.4.6-i
You need to actually select them in the main screen to only connect to those that are visible

Just re-loaded v0.4.6-i to check. still the same

[Ylianst]

Published MeshCentral v0.4.6-m with a fix for the filter with multi-desktop. Also in this version, you can put t:(tagname) or tag:(tagname) in the filter box and it will only show devices with that tag. Let me know if it works as expected.

[OutbackMatt]

The tags were being searched correctly previously (just not group names)

The new change doesn't work for me

I have a common product ABCSoftware used at multiple medical centres
I have a tag on the server of each medical centre 'ABCServer'

If I filter 'ABCServer' then only the servers with that tag show up as expected.
If I filter 'ABCServer)' then ALL machines show in the list
If I filter 't:(ABCServer)' then NO devices show
If I filter 'tag:(ABCServer)' then NO devices show
If I filter simply 't:' then NO devices show

[OutbackMatt]

Also the multi-desktop works as expected,
'Connect All' only connects to those that are visible

Thanks for your work

[MailYouLater]

I'm not sure, but I think he meant the parentheses to indicate that (tagname) was placeholder text, similar to how I usually use the less than (<) and greater than (>) symbols, so I would have written it as "you can put tag:<tagname> in the filter box" and to use your example tag "ABCServer", you would put tag:ABCServer in as the filter.

[OutbackMatt]

As soon as I put a colon ':' in the filter, I get NO devices shown

Brackets, '(' or ')' seem to work like wild cards, haven't quite worked that out yet

[Ylianst]

Apologies, @MailYouLater is right. I intended to say you supposed to type:

tag:SampleTag
t:SampleTag

That should show only devices tagged with "SampleTag". No parentheses supported.

[OutbackMatt]

As soon as I put a colon ':' in the filter, I get NO devices shown

[Ylianst]

Can you give an example of what you are using as the filter? Are you using : twice? Like "tag:home:computers"? More details / screenshots appreciated.

[OutbackMatt]

[OutbackMatt]

Where as just typing part of a tag name gets me this (as expected)

[MailYouLater]

Typing just the tag name (ABCServer) will work, but if for example your tag is something that also appears in other searched places (e.g. device name/description, group name, etc.) you will get those too. (e.g. if you have ABC clients with just the tag ABC and one of your device groups is related enough to have "ABC" in the name, those will all show up too.) In such a case, you may want to bring up ONLY the devices with the ABC tag, in which case, you would search for tag:ABC and it would hide the group(s) and devices with it in the name or description if they don't also have the tag. Searching for t: or tag: is now looking for a device with a tag of ... nothing, which doesn't make sense, as a tag of nothing would simply not be a tag, so nothing shows up.

[OutbackMatt]

Ah yes
Thanks - makes more sense, especially when I realised that the tag name needs to be typed in full and is case sensitive

So that 'Server' is different to 'server', and to get 'ABCServer' that complete text needs to be entered

Whereas without the t: deliminator a search for 's' will get all machines with an s anywhere in the name or in the tag

Thanks for the tip MailYouLater