How to Easily Keep Track of View in ControlUp Solve?

A user was having difficulty keeping track of their views when moving between locations in Solve. They wanted the ability to have set the same default view everywhere, which is currently not a feature. Dennis suggested that the configuration for the views can be found in a file, and an API endpoint exists to save presets, but difficulties in table configuration and view translation remain. Chris commented to review the notes given by a member and Dennis updated that this behavior is not intuitive and is highly prioritized.

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Im having a hell of a time keeping track of all these views in solve. It feels like everytiem i swtich views, my grid chanhges and I have to create a new custom one. Is there any way to make this simpler? I pretty much want tosee the same thing regardless of where i am. Forsessions, i want the same info displayed in my grid regardless of how I got there. Currently its all different between User Sessions (Ctirx), User Sessions (All), User Sessions (Agent), when I do a drill down, etc etc. It seems way to complicated just to get the views I want. Especially since I still cant export/import. I would like to be able just to set some dumb default views to use everywhere otherwise

Example. EUC Environments > Cloud Name > Delivery Groups. My saved preset is aptly named “Delivery Groups”

Now if i click on publsihed apps, click on an. app, then go back to delivery groups…

i get something totally different becaue my view is differnt but i could care less. i want the same stuff

im sure im just “not using the product properly”, but if icant figure it out, no way my EUC techs will.

We need preset brought from the legacy console that to can assign views per folder

If I remember correctly, Chris didn’t you ask me about the functionality to export your views from the console and import them into Solve?

That sounds like an interesting use case for a terribly hacky script.. :thinking_face:

thats got my attention

So consider this as a “Dennis the individual” not “Dennis the CU employee”. Having said that…

The %appdata\controlup\configuration\_PrivateConfiguration.xml contains the presets in XML form. Which I can read and put into a list.

The next question is saving them as presets in Solve. Solve already has an API endpoint (that the frontend uses) https://solve.controlup.com/api/config/savePreset

But the problem is that each column has a bunch of other configuration other than it’s name

Also have to worry about Table to configpath translation. But I guess you could hard code that

@member would be great if you can review @member notes and share your feedback

@member, Thanks for the feedback! I can definitely understand why this behavior is not intuitive. I will take a deeper look into that and update here.

Update – I have looked into that, this caused by the presets placed per-view (drills, different type of machines, etc) and not per the entire table. We are aware of the request to update that and it’s highly prioritized. will make sure to update you when we have progress on this one.

Thanks @member ~

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