Managing Applications in ControlUp Widgets

Users were discussing how to exclude applications from a widget in ControlUp. One user suggested using a script for macOS, Windows, and Linux to write to a custom index, while another mentioned a new datasource on the roadmap. @member provided a link to a Script Pack that could help with reporting on processes.

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Anyone have advice on excluding applications from a widget? Example, "How many devices without X application", using the Install App index and using the NOT filter to exclude the App Name does not work.

Hi Robert, the installed apps index is a bit of a weird one since it is overwrite BUT still has multiple rows per devices. Which means a NOT filter will always find a row where the app is not .. we are aware of this issue but it’s a difficult one to overcome. There is a new datasource on the roadmap but will take some time. For now you can try and use a workflow to do more advanced calculations on the data set and write it back to a custom index. @member has done some work on this I believe. Let me know if you need more help.

perfect Chris, thanks for the heads up. alternatively, if widgets could allow the ability to do unique count of devices and something like "out of _devices" this would also suffice so overlays like a gauge have a more accurate count versus a threshold, seems reasonable

I wrote a script for macOS windows and Linux that writes to a index and if the app it installed then it will give me all the details that I want and if it doesn’t find the app installed it will return not installed

I then just use the index to build a dashboard to show the status of installed vs not installed

Hope it helps @member

Can’t wait for the new datasourse thus meaning less scripts that we need to run and less indexes

Yes! thank you

@member don’t you have a script for this?

Here is the link to the Script Pack – https://controlup.atlassian.net/wiki/external/YWM2M2NmMmEyMzVkNDI4OGE5OGU2NGIzOTA4MGVkZmM

There is a script in here called CU4Desktops-API-Get-ProcessUsageDetails which should give you what you need. You can enter a comma-separated list of processes to report on. There a little bug with this report where the visualizations don’t work if you specify a single process, but more than one process shows the visualizations as expected.

great! thank you so much for the help

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