RFE: Map functionality

Question

I'm not sure whether this is the right place, but I'd like to request a product enhancement. Right now, the Map feature can be very useful, especially as regards showing the historical state of the environment, but it's hard to get useful data out of the Map and into, say, a query or report.

Request: Have a "select all" or multi-select feature in the Map view for a given area, e.g., Virtual Machines. At the moment, there is no way to multi-select the items in a section of the map, so everything has to be checked by hand, one at a time, which is quite challenging with a large list.

It would also be nice to be able to see more than the first four to six characters of an item in the Map view. A lot of our VMs start with the same prefix, so it's hard to see which ones are being displayed at a glance.

tomaddox · Answer

It's definitely more useful than it was, but being unable to see more than the first five or six characters in an object name still limits the utility of the view.

jonathan.reeve · Answer

Tom,

There are some map density improvements in the 4.1 release that is now GA.  That should helps to see more objects at once.  Let us know what you think.

Thanks

Jon

tomaddox · Answer

Not being able to see the full object name is probably the major issue. Another issue is with how the icons are arranged and organized, however. Since the icons are locked into a static 3x3 grid, it's impossible to see more than nine objects of a particular class at once, which also makes it difficult to get a larger perspective on the environment.