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With the deprecation of Notes (Information sub-tab), and its replacement being essentially Documentation, it would be tremendously useful to have an option to "Include Documentation" when Filtering sessions (as in the attached mock-up/screenshot). There are only a couple of "appropriate" free-form text fields that we can Filter against. Namely the Notes (tab) and Description (field). Sure, we can commandeer another field (like Contact Information : Address) as it accepts free-form text but this isn't ideal. With Notes being deprecated, we do not want to rely on this feature if it will eventually disappear. That leaves the Description field. Unfortunately, this field is frequently exposed when hovering over a Session so it's not great for storing copious notes. The best solution is to use Documentation but this option isn't an available Filter. Of course, we can perform Documentation Searches but this doesn't give us the flexibility of Filtering. We would really like to see a Filter option that Includes Documentation. Hopefully, Devolutions can add this to the feature request pipeline. Much appreciated and keep up the great work!
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Hello,
I will add this to our todo list but it could slow down the search. Are you ok with this?
Regards
David Hervieux
For our purposes, the search result speed would be irrelevant as our inventory doesn't frequently change. Once a filter populates its list of objects, I would expect the "speed" to be overcome by caching the results until the next time the filter is changed (not necessarily when the underlying object metadata changes). The need for Documentation to be a contributing attribute in Filters is very high in our environment.
Conversely, could you shed some light on the reason why Notes is being deprecated? Using Notes is really the ideal solution but not if this feature is going away.
Hello,
The reason why note field is deprecated is because of performance reason. This field is saved in the connection Xml and it's loaded (saved in the offline). You can still use the note if you want and if you split your data source in multi vaults.
Regards
David Hervieux