Computer and Mobile Search Inventory Broken in 9

What a pain...

This seems like a step back in time...like before we had Spotlight or Google.

I noticed that it seems not to do substring searches anymore from the first search box.
Workaround: If you click Search with nothing, you get the full list. Then type in a substring search in the Filter Results box and get a result.

But that's a bit of a unnecessary two-step.

But it does do substring searches (the gist of this very post) by adding asterisks around the string. Either after or before or both, depending on what you're looking for. Its a big change from all previous versions of the JSS as far back as I can recall. But I think the reason behind it is so you can now do things like include/exclude within the basic search, which wasn't really possible before.

That said, the filtering field is a welcome addition. However, I wish the Export and Action buttons didn't vanish as soon as you filter a search. Why not allow us to do something with filtered results other than just look at them? :/ That seems to limit the filters usefulness to me.

I was hit by this as well.

Can you elaborate how a substring search would work? syntax examples...

We are having the same issue. This should work just like previous versions did. I would be able to type 15 into the search box and any computer name that had 15 in it should pop up in the list.

Here is what I'm seeing when performing searches. Let's say the computer I'm looking for is "Forrest-Gump-1234."

Search for "Forrest"...returns nothing. (In version 8, this would return all computers containing "Forrest.")

Search for "Forrest-Gump-1234"...returns "Forrest-Gump-1234."

Search for "Forrest*"...returns "Forrest-Gump-1234" (and I assume anything else starting with "Forrest.")

...I'm not a smart man...but I know what search is.

(Edit: I'm on 9.2)

We've had this issue since 9 as well. Very annoying - especially after everything that was gained in 9.x.