By default, the Software Manager lists all remotely installed and locally available modules, which can produce a very large table. A filter control provides an Edit Filter dialog (Figure 72), in which you select items for listing, thereby filtering undesired items.
You can use either Filter by status or Filter by name, or a combination of the two.
Modules with an “Out of Date” or “Out of Date (Requires Commissioning)” status always appear in the Software Manager. So do any with uncommitted (intended) status values, such as “Install,” “Uninstall,” and so on.
When you enable filter by status, you can check other statuses to include (or clear to omit) the listing of associated items in the table, as follows:
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Not Installed — Modules on your PC that can be installed, but are not in the remote platform.
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Not Installed (Requires Commissioning) — Modules on your PC, but not in the remote platform. The remote JACE must be upgraded (using Commissioning Wizard) first.
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Up to Date — Modules on your PC and in the remote platform, where the software is not older.
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Cannot Install — Local module is unreadable or has bad manifest, you cannot install it.
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Bad File — Remote module is unreadable or has bad manifest.
With status filtering enabled, you can also simply “check all” and “clear all checked.”
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If all status items are cleared, only “Out of Date” and uncommitted status modules appear.
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If all status items are checked, the display is similar to disabled status filtering, except “non-module” items are not listed.
Name filtering lets you include or exclude items based on character string portion of module File name. When enabled (checked), you can type in a string of characters, and then check one of the following:
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Show rows with names containing text — Only items with file name containing this string.
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Show rows with names which do not contain text — Only items with file name that does not contain this string.
This feature can be useful to filter many modules with common name characters, for example “lon” or “doc” part-named modules.