Hi Todor,

You may use "Custom Attribute" for your case, for each Virtual filter group's target devices you can create a custom attribute value for example:
Custom Attribute Name: Virtual Group

Custom Attribute Value: Group-A (depending on the devices that you wish)

You can export the list of devices from MobiControl Webconsole first (based on your filter view, such as only devicename, device ID etc.) and then save it to your PC. After that you can edit the excel file by adding custom attribute values by copy/paste for any devices that you want on excel. When it's done you can import the excel list to Mobicontrol Webconsole to tag devices custom attribute values in one shoot. 

After this step, you can go to your Virtual Group, and you can use "Custom Attributes" filter instead of Serial Number. Here you can find more details on importing custom attributes: Import Custom Attributes (soti.net) on SOTI website. And below is some details as well:

1. Create a new Custom Attribute
   1.  Go to “Hamburger Menu” --> Global Settings --> Device Settings -->Custom Attributes, and then Click “+” sign to create a new Custom Attribute

2. Create a new view from MC WebConsole

1. You may select only “devicename” and “device ID” filter for a new view.
2. Export the list of devices as csv format

3. Open the “csv file” that you downloaded on previous step, and be sure that your excel cells are “text” based format instead of general etc.

4. Verify that you can see the Device IDs as a longer format as below (highlighted as green)

5. Update excel columns:

- Rename “Device ID” as “DeviceID” by deleting the space between.

- Add new Column Name as “AttributeName”.

- Add another Column Name as “AttributeValue”. Then the file should look like as below:

- You can Delete Device Name and Serian number columns when you specify custom attributes name and values

6. Go to Mobicontrol WebConsole and export the excel list.

- Go to “View All” from left-pane, and then right-mouse click, then select “import custom attributes” option as below:

You should see success message after exporting the excel onto MobiControl WebConsole on right top corner notification bar section. 

Verify your custom attributes are set well, by opening some devices and monitoring it's custom attributes values are all good. After that you can create a virtual group based on the "custom attributes". I hope this helps. 

Zafer

Hi and Thank you for your answer Zafer.

This looks promising, but I already created all virtual groups and started adding devices.

If there are no direct option I will maybe try it.

Anyone else?

Thank you again!

Hi again,

how to use added custom attribute to add devices in group?

Hi Rafael,

The groups are for organizational units for our regional branches.

No other logic possible, only importing values from list.

Thank you!

Hi Todor,

Thank you for posting on SOTI Pulse! 

Glad to see that you came to a resolution on this post. If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out to technical support.

Kind regards,

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