Filter alert definitions
- Borja Moro Moreno
What permissions do I need?
To access the Alerts configuration area and filter alerts, you need at least the View level of the Alert configuration permission (see a detailed descriptions of the alerts permissions here).
Additionally, you need to have alerts assigned with at least View access (see Assign resources to a role).
About filters
Since the number of existing alerts in a domain is potentially high, the process of filtering alerts provides a quick way of finding them and is, therefore, an instrumental step prior to any other task. There are four different methods with different scopes: top filter, general filter, column filter, and field filter.
These methods are independent but can be used in combination for a more concise approach. However, be aware that each reset option only reaches the scope of its corresponding method, in other words, they can reset only the filters they are capable of applying.
Top filter
The top filter is a global method somehow similar to the Data Search finder in the sense that the lists are hierarchical. The box on the left represents the categories, the box on the right represents the subcategories and the list below shows the alerts that correspond to the category-subcategory combination selected.
Selecting a category in the box on the left will cause a cascade filtering to show only the category, its subcategories and the alerts inside those subcategories.
Selecting a subcategory will cause further cascading to show only the alerts inside that subcategory. If it is selected without selecting a category before, the filtering is performed in both directions of the hierarchy to show only the parent category and the child alerts.
Clicking the Unselect button that appears next to the Categories and Subcategories headers upon selection will reset the filters up to that level. This means Categories will show everything again while Subcategories will show everything inside the selected category.
Delete categories
As alerts are created and deleted over time, it's possible that a subcategory no longer contains any alerts. When this happens, Devo lets you know by displaying a Delete button when you hover over the subcategory.
General filter
The general filter is one of the methods to filter directly on the alert list displayed. Write the desired string on the Contains text search box and click on the magnifying glass next to it to show only those alerts that contain such a string in any of their fields (category, subcategory, name, owner, etc.). Click the circle marked X that appears upon inserting a filtering criteria to remove it.
Column filter
The column filter on each column header is one of the methods to filter directly on the alert list displayed, on a specific column. Click on the desired column filter and write the desired string. The alerts will be filtered as you type, showing only those that contain such a string in that specific column. To remove the filtering criteria, just delete the string.
Field filter
You can also click a value on the list and that value will be used as filtering criteria (clicking a value on the Category or Subcategory columns is the same as using the top filter, while clicking a value on the Name or Owner columns is the same as using the column filter).
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