Bug 1567860

Summary: [RFE] Allow expression methods to return unfiltered lists of objects
Product: Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine Reporter: Peter McGowan <pmcgowan>
Component: AutomateAssignee: Greg McCullough <gmccullo>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Dave Johnson <dajohnso>
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Version: 5.9.0CC: gmccullo, gtanzill, lavenel, mkanoor, obarenbo, tfitzger
Target Milestone: GAKeywords: FutureFeature
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Description Peter McGowan 2018-04-16 10:13:13 UTC 
Description of problem:
Expression methods are very useful, but it is sometimes desirable to be able to return a list of all expression objects of a particular type, unfiltered by an expression. An example is the MiqGroup object type, where the only available expression filter is a tag. It would be useful to be able to return all defined groups, regardless of tag.

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5.9.0.22
Comment 4 Tina Fitzgerald 2019-02-20 22:27:46 UTC 
Gregg and I discussed this RFE the other day.

Even though it's not elegant, the functionality exists today by using an expression checking for the ID > 0.

I tested this using Automate -> Simulate

ExtManagementSystem
Provider : Id > 0