Help with task validating a computer name

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Hello, I know it must be some rule in bigfix that does not allow me to do what I want but I just want to make sure…

If I run the following in the debugger
if exist member whose (name of it contains “V01”) of bes computer groups whose (name of it = “servers _a”) then true else false
it works and answer is true…

however when I use the same statement inside a task that I am creating as:
if {exist member whose (name of it contains “V01”) of bes computer groups whose (name of it = “servers_a”)}
do something
else
do something else
endif

the tasks fails…

Any explanation of why the failure will be great thanks

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A starting place is https://developer.bigfix.com/relevance/

The “bes computer group” is a Session Relevance property, it can only be used in Web Reports, Server API, and in the Console. It requires access to the BES Server to retrieve data about other computers, and thus needs an authenticated connection.

The relevance used in fixlets, tasks, and group membership is Client Relevance. It can only retrieve data that is available locally on the client, and cannot read property results from the BES Server.

A Task with relevance based on group membership should look something like
member of group 1234 of site "My_Custom_Site")

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Thank you Jason, I knew that it was something like that going on. I appreciate your explanation.

thanks again.