Improving search functionality in ControlUp’s VDI section

A discussion on ControlUp’s search functionality for VDI users led to a suggestion for a search bar at the top of the VDI section, similar to the one available for Employees. The user believed this would save time and clicks when locating specific VDI users. Some concerns were raised about the feasibility of implementing this feature, as it would have to search all VDI objects. The possibility of first-line support continuing to use Citrix Director for this functionality was also mentioned.

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In ControlUp you have Employees and VDI as separate views. Employees focuses on physical endpoints, while VDI is centered around Citrix users.

What would significantly help — especially for my colleagues in the support department — is to have a similar search bar available at the top of the VDI section, just like the one implemented for Employees.

This would save a considerable amount of time and reduce the number of clicks required to quickly locate VDI users.

Employees:

Hi @member to confirm I got this right. You want a search bar at the top of the page when you navigate to ‘VDI – Details’?

Regardless of where we place it, I’m thinking you just want to quickly access VDI session details for a specific user. So after navigating to ‘User session (all)’ as shown in your screenshot one level deeper when you click on the user.

Is that correct?

Hi Sonny,

That’s correct indeed. I’ve adjusted it so it now looks like this.

Right, I see what you mean. It’s something I’d have to look into. By nature if we place a search field there it would have to search all objects we have within VDI. Also things like hosts, machines, remoteapps, etc… Not just the sessions.

This is also one of the reasons why I see our first-line support continuing to use Citrix Director, as this functionality is available there.

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