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bret_miller's avatar
11 years ago

Filtering Job History with job name "matches"

Every once in a while I run into a situation where I could really use a better filter than "contains" or "starts with" in job history. I note there is a "matches" option, but there is no documentatio...
  • Colin_Weaver's avatar
    11 years ago

    Ok I did some testing in the office this morning (with 2012) and it does not work as an exact match - in fact I am not 100% sure that it does not do the same as Contains from the results I saw - which may mean we have a bug (which won't be fixed in 2012)

     

    However I do have a possible answer for how to do what you want (also from my testing)

    I had a repeated job history where at least two differently named jobs had run more than once each.

    Format of job names was

    "servername.domain.local Backup 00005-Full"

    and

    "servername.domain.local Backup 00007-Full"

    There were also some other jobs with completely different names in my history

     

    I entered

    %servername% %00005%

    into the Contains or Matches filter and it seemed to correctly filter on 2 split words

    You could therefore try

    %servername% %Full%

    to see what happens

    Note: the % symbol is a common IT wildcard hence we probably didn't think it needed documenting.

    Note2: BE 2014 seems to also do the same for Contains and Matches