Upgrade the Search capability of CT

What is a one sentence summary of your feature request?

Update Device Search to allow bulk searching of nodes

Please describe your idea in detail. What is your problem, why do you feel this idea is the best solution, etc.

If I’m given a task to check multiple nodes that may not be in the same group, I can only view them one at a time. Creating custom groups working with, or troubleshooting multiple nodes in CT is not efficient when you have hundreds of nodes to work with because you can only move them one by one. Ideally, I could paste a group of nodes in the search bar and it will automatically pull up the nodes I’m needing to review, work with, troubleshoot, etc. I should be able to search the nodes in bulk in the search bar and add them all at once into the custom group.

How do you currently solve the challenges you have by not having this feature?

The only way I could work with the group of nodes with the world-writable file issue is to create a manual group, move the nodes one by one into the group.

Hi Kirby,

Welcome to the ideas portal. I understand the pain here. I think creating a group is the way to go because this group can be used across the product, but I agree we could make it easier and faster to create groups like this.

Maybe when adding devices to a group we allow multiple devices to be selected/tagged before clicking OK. This would allow a user to filter, select devices, filter again in a different way and select more devices. Finally, clicking OK would add all selected devices to the group. Does this sound like something that could help?

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