Analysis Property result of "..."

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On a newly created Analysis Property, I look at a BigFix Computer in the Console and for that property, I get the result of 3 periods “…” for some clients (mostly AIX) when most all other clients give me the property output (a concatenated list of users). When I look at the analysis property result for that computer from Analyses > it shows "<error>" with a hover over of “…”. When I look at the property result in WebReports, it returns "<not set>".

Is the 3 periods representing null in the console or some other error?

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Not sure what is going on with Web Reports output, but in the console ‘…’ indicates a very long string.

You may get some joy by casting to rope, but results will be mixed (at best)

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Do you have an example?
https://developer.bigfix.com/relevance/reference/rope.html

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I value my sanity, so I have learned to keep clear!

It is well into the evening this side of the pond, so I have no examples with me, but it went along the lines of

rope (concatenation ";" of <whatever>)

I do recall getting more computers to display something other than the three dots, but it was not a bulletproof method.

I think I had more success by omitting common parts of the result and extending the relevance so I could discard some less useful results.

I’ll look tomorrow, but it was a while ago and I probably changed tack.

Web Reports, is better at displaying plural results than the console, so that may be another avenue to pursue.

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@trn
Looking a massive string? Say no more!
rope ( concatenation of (sha256 of (it as string)) of integers in (1,1000))

That said, the <not set> error does not sound like a long string.

@cstoneba Please share your current relevance for your analysis?

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it seems to be working better now that I added “unique values of”.

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