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Minor annoyance fix: Trim leading and trailing whitespace in EVERY field in the Orion Web UI where text is entered to search/query

I really despise when leading and trailing whitespace creeps into my database

Many times I am copy/pasting data from other sources/documents/websites (even the NPM website) like IP addresses or host names and I find that there are may times where a stray space (or tab, etc) character will be at the beginning or end of my search string and I don't notice it until I run the query and get back 0 results.

Solution: trim all white space characters when the user hits the submit/query button. These characters shouldn't be valid for device/IP names anyway.

Bonus points: Disallow even entering these as device Labels on node names (I believe it still accepts it), because occasionally that happens too and I don't know of a case where anyone would want " myhostname123" as a label or description.

Double Bonus Points: Don't even let them in for Custom Fields or the data in Custom fields.

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tigger2

Since there's so few votes, how about "...in *MOST* fields..." . Basically the main search fields in the NPM,NCM,IPAM,UDT,etc. summary and admin pages for managing nodes. Places where you enter hostnames to search, because copy-paste of hostnames is a normal thing to do, and sometimes there's spaces in the copied/pasted data.