adminconsole group mgt tab search is case sensitive and accept _ as wildcard

Products

• VIP Authentication Hub

Issue/Introduction

Accessing the admin console group management tab, having the "Banking" group for instance.

Search for

    Banking -> ok
    B -> ok
    banking -> ko
    b -> ko

The group search should be insensitive. There should be a way to list all the groups.

The usage of * as a wildcard doesn't work.

The workaround (trick) is to use "_" which will list all groups.

This is useful to find groups without knowing their name.

 

Environment

  VIP Authentication Hub 3.1.1;
    PostgreSQL;

 

Resolution

Upgrade VIP Authentication Hub to 3.2 version to fix this.

When running VIP Authentication Hub 3.2, the following applies:

1. Group search supports starts-with search;
2. The search supports case-insensitive, i.e. if there is a group "Employee", then all of the following will find that group Emp, em, e, E, . . .;
3. Support for _ was removed in 3.2 avoiding to expose a mechanism for the user to find all the records in the dataset as it could cause performance bottlenecks and believing the same was applicable for not supporting the "contains" search.