Expose Session list to Spotlight so connections can be launched from Spotlight.

Hi,

I've quickly looked at the Spotlight API and I'm not sure how well this will works with the functioning of RDM. The difference between RDM and MS Remote Desktop here is that MS Remote Desktop only saves a single set of configurations locally. RDM can manage multiple data sources at once, some of them possibly being remote (SQL Server, DVLS, etc.) This can easily bring the amount of sessions to the tens of thousands. In the same sense, we could not re-index changes or new entries before both the data source and the vault get selected. I'll open a ticket to investigate further.

As for the shortcuts, it's already possible:

This creates an .inetloc file that uses the RDM protocol (rdm://) to launch a session.

Best regards,

Stupendous. That desktop alias is a perfect workaround. The benefit of using the spotlight API though I assume would be being able to use meta-data to support a search. But this is great!

Now to work on a deployment.

Hi,

Glad to hear it works for you.

If we come around to implement the Spotlight API, we will post back in this thread.

Best regards,

Hi Phatmandrake,

I know it's been quite a while, but as of RDM macOS version 2023.2.8.1, launchable entries (RDP, SSH, etc.) are now exposed in the Spotlight search.

Best regards,