Is it possible to get the underlying session relevance that powers a Custom Filter? (No)

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Assuming that Custom Filters are powered by session relevance, which I assume they are, then it would be nice to be able to get access to the raw session relevance that the Custom Filter is using that was built with the wizard.

  • Is this available somehow through the console?
  • Through Session Relevance?
  • Through the REST or SOAP api?
  • Through the BFEnterprise DB?

Example:

it doesn’t seem to be available using bes filter session relevance, but the results are:

(ids of it, names of it) of elements of fixlet sets of bes filters whose(fixlet flag of it AND "Firefox Updates - Windows" = name of it)

Related:

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Sorry, custom filters are not powered by session relevance, so it’s not possible to ask the console for the relevance that corresponds to a custom filter.

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The custom filters are in the database as XML stored as binary, so they have to be converted to be read. This will do it:

select CAST(CAST(FilterData AS VARBINARY(MAX)) AS XML), * from [BFEnterprise].[dbo].[NAMEDFILTERS]

Thanks to @Aram for this.

They don’t use session relevance, at least not for the filter definition.

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See this response from @steve :

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