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Figure 1.5: Filtering Information in a Window
Filtering is performed over the entire list of items, not just those displayed in the current window,
and provides a shorter, more exact list of items. When filtering is performed, the text in every row
and column in the window is searched for the specified text string. For example, you may wish to
perform filtering to list only DSR1021 appliances in the Name column, target devices with KVM
connections in the Action column, CPS appliances that are idle in the Status column and so on.
While filtering, you may use an asterisk (*) before and/or after text strings as a wildcard. For
example, typing emailserver* and clicking Filter will display items with emailserver at the
beginning (emailserver, emailserverbackup and so on). Typing *emailserver and clicking Filter
will display items ending with emailserver (obsolete_emailserver, betaemailserver and so on).
Typing *emailserver* and clicking Filter will display items containing emailserver in any part of
the name (emailserver, emailserverstore, tdemailserver, tdemailserver1, newemailserver and so on.
Table 1.4 lists the various methods that may be used to filter information, where <String>,
<String1> and <String2> is a string of text.
NOTE: Searches are non case sensitive.
Filter
Type the text you wish
to use as a filter here
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