installed Software show no instances

[frankie64]

Hi,

Sometimes the filter 'installed software' shows not the devices.

for instance:
Software '[Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64) - 14.38.33135]' has 2 installed instances.

If I click on this no devices will be show. for other software it works.

thx for help

[MartVisser]

Hi @frankie64

Thanks for reporting the bug. I can reproduce the bug. The ‘+’ character doesn't show up in the search filter on the installation page. Looks like it's because the URL is not being encoded.

With the URL /plugins/slm/installations/?q=Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64) the search filter is:

If I manually modify the URL to a encoded version /plugins/slm/installations/?q=Microsoft+Visual+C%2B%2B+2015-2022+Redistributable+(x64) the search filter is:

We will try to fix this bug after the holiday period. We are also accepting PRs.

[frankie64]

Hi Mart, it sounds good. We check this plugin for using that in our productive system. But we have in moments 2 showstopper. First is this bug and second is, that the filterformular is not usable or the "quick search filter" works only with the software colums, not with the device colum. For that it's not possible for us to see in a quick way which software is installed on a specific device. Is there a roadmap for more functionality? Thanks and have a good time in the next free days... Frank

[wkoot]

I have fixed the url encoding error, but I believe that there might still be some unexpected behaviour here.

This bug only appears on Installations columns, which only appear in the Software Products and Versions tables.
They link to the Software Product Installations table, with a search query simply referring to the originating object name.
So if you navigate from installations in the products or versions table, you search on product name or version name respectively.

The catch here is that the search is performed by simply appending a ?q=(name) to the url for installations.
This means that any search field is being matched for this query; if there are partial matches, they will also be included.
Unless there is a way to directly display a queryset, or searching on specific column values only, I don't see a good solution.

Some examples of unexpected search clashes (although their counts will be accurate):

• Software product "alpine", version "3.12" & product "python", version "3.12"
• Software product "alpine" & product "postgres container", version "17-alpine"