Showing hidden content only

Usage and Config Platform
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I am attempting to show a list of previously hidden content for our patching personnel. Is there any easy was to display ONLY hidden content?

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You can create a filter to do that.

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One issue is that you have to create separate filters for Fixlets, Tasks, Analyses, and Baselines, which is a bit annoying.

As far as I can tell, this is the only built in way to do this, other than session relevance.

It does give me the idea that a “hidden content” dashboard would be useful.

Related Session Relevance Queries:

number of hidden content: (not just fixlets, everything)

number of bes fixlets whose(not visible flag of it)

number of hidden content with at least 1 relevance computer: (not just fixlets, everything)

number of bes fixlets whose(not visible flag of it AND applicable computer count of it > 0)

(applicable computer count, name) of hidden content:

(applicable computer count of it, name of it) of bes fixlets whose(not visible flag of it)

(applicable computer count, type, name, id) of hidden content:

(applicable computer count of it, type of it, name of it, id of it) of bes fixlets whose(not visible flag of it)

It is a bit confusing, but almost all “bigfix content” within the “bigfix console” is actually considered a “bes fixlet” parent object internally: https://developer.bigfix.com/relevance/reference/bes-fixlet.html#type-of-bes-fixlet-string

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I created a BigFix Console Dashboard that will display a table of all hidden content that the current user can “see”. If something is globally hidden by a master operator and the operator viewing the dashboard is not a master operator, they should not see it listed… though I haven’t tested this to be sure.

You can test this dashboard by placing it by itself in a subfolder and using the “load wizard” option in the BigFix Console Debug menu.

You can also add this file to a custom site. This is the only option to make the dashboard available to all operators. If you choose this method, you might consider creating a custom site called “Dashboards” with 0 computer subscriptions and give operators read access to it if you want them to be able to view the dashboards included.

This dashboard might also work as a Web Report. I haven’t tested it for use on Web Reports. It might need some small tweaks to make it work in Web Reports.

TODO: create a button in the dashboard to unhide the content

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