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Dynamic group filter : list of specific users

Frederic Girousse

March 03, 2022 15:49

Hello,

I'm searching a way of creating a very specific dynamic collection on PDQ Invenotry and after researching the net i'm pondering if it's even possible :)

I would like to create a collection of computers used by specific users. The only common point is a list of 169 user ids that I have ... The computers are "owned" by those users so there ids is well referenced on PDQ Inventory.

Maybe via regular expression ? But I'm not familiar with this language.

Thanks for your time !

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James D
March 03, 2022 22:53

PDQ had a great article and a few other good resources. I reached out to their support because I do use it from time to time and it looks like the article got archived. They found a wayback link, but some links are broken because its older article. This was super helpful for me learning regular expressions.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210301122814/https://help.pdq.com/hc/en-us/articles/220531987-Regular-Expression-Resources

They also provided one of Lex's awesome videos. Lex did another one on created a list of software using regular expressions to make a PDQ collection but I couldn't find that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR4mLR09MQ4

If you create a collection with a filter of Computer > Current User > Matches Expression > @(UserList), where @(UserList) is a variable of your list of users piped together (user1|user2|user3|etc) that should do it.

Hope that is what you're looking for.

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Frederic Girousse
March 08, 2022 09:57

Thank you so much for the tips, it's working !
Have a great day :)

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