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Loading File Viewer and Tag Viewer UI with preset filters

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The File Viewer and Tag Viewer support filtering by properties. However, as far as I can tell, the user must manually type in the filter values every time.

 

Is there a way to load the File Viewer or Tag Viewer web UIs, with filters already in-place? (For example, with a URL query string, perhaps? http://localhost/#fileviewer?Extension=tdms&minionId=cRIO1 )

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Yes, with the File Viewer when you configure a filter it does change the URL, but they can be very long like below.  Once you have a filter you want you can simply bookmark it with your browser and then use that link to get back to that view at any time.

 

https://localhost/#fileviewer/filter/propertiesQuery%5B0%5D%5Bkey%5D=minionId&propertiesQuery%5B0%5D...

 

Unfortunately, this isn't the case for the tag viewer, however you may be able to create a dashboard and use the various tiles to show the tags you use the most often.

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You can however easily see the tags for a specific system from the systems detail page via a URL with something like the following.

 

https://localhost/#systemsmanagement/system/NI_cRIO-9042--SN-01E10AB8--MAC-00-80-2F-24-FB-CE/health

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@JoshuaP wrote:

Yes, with the File Viewer when you configure a filter it does change the URL, but they can be very long like below.  Once you have a filter you want you can simply bookmark it with your browser and then use that link to get back to that view at any time.

 

https://localhost/#fileviewer/filter/propertiesQuery%5B0%5D%5Bkey%5D=minionId&propertiesQuery%5B0%5D...


Perfect -- that's exactly what I need, thanks!

 

I should have noticed the URL change; I saw that the Tag Viewer's filter doesn't change the URL and assumed that the File Viewer behaved the same way.

 

The long URL isn't an issue as I will programmatically construct the URL query string in my WebVI.

 


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Unfortunately, this isn't the case for the tag viewer, however you may be able to create a dashboard and use the various tiles to show the tags you use the most often.


Understood.

 

How easy or hard would it be for NI to implement a similar system in the Tag Viewer?

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