Overview
The Devices table of the Radix Device Management platform can display a wide range of information about the devices in your fleet. You can select from among 42 different parameters to display at a glance, such as Device ID, operating system, user email address, device tags, labels, IP address, and much more. Once you have chosen which data to display, you can then filter devices by these parameters. We will demonstrate how to select custom columns of data to display, and how to add custom columns as well.
Selecting Standard Data Columns
The Devices table has the Configure Columns option. It lets you select which columns to display in the Devices table.
To access the Configure Columns command:
1. Click on the Devices icon in the sidebar menu to open the Devices table.
2. Click on the Configure Columns icon:
You will see a drop-down list of all the data column options that can be displayed.
3. Click on the checkbox of the parameters you would like to display. Unchecking all of the options will result in a Device table that displays only the Device ID by default.
Devices table with only Device ID displayed
4. If you wish to align certain columns so that they are displayed with a higher priority, click on the handle icon to move that parameter upwards in the list. In the example below, we move the Location parameter (which displays the latitude and longitude of the device) upwards in the list.
The location column now appears further to the left:
Adding Custom Columns
There is also an option to add custom columns to the Devices table. There are two types of custom columns:
1. A column of editable text, where you can choose to write something about a particular device.
2. A column that displays the version of particular apps installed on remote devices.
Editable Custom Columns
To add custom columns:
1. Go to the User Management Menu by clicking on the user avatar in the lower left corner, and click on Account Settings:
2. In the sidebar menu of the Account Settings window, click on Custom Columns:
We see that there already is a custom column with the name “My notes”. This allows the user to jot down a descriptive note in this column.
3. We will add a column of our own. We click Add new column and enter the text “Owner’s Name” in the text box.
4. Click Save to save our changes.
5. We now must go back to the Devices table, click on the Configure Columns icon, and click the checkbox to make our new Owner’s Name column visible:
6. Refresh your browser to make the changes go into effect.
7. We will now see that we can add descriptive text in the Owner’s Name column for our devices:
App Version Custom Columns
The bottom half of the Custom Columns pane has a list of available apps. By adding apps to the Selected apps column on the right, we can monitor the version of the app installed on remote devices. You can add up to three App Version Custom Columns.
To create a custom column for an app version:
1. Click on the “+” next to a particular app to copy it over to the Selected apps column.
In the example below, we created a custom column to monitor the version of the Chrome app.
2. Click Save to finalize the changes.
3. Go to the Devices table and click on the Configure Columns icon again. The Chrome app will be one of the options that we can select:
4. Click on the checkbox for Chrome (App ver). We will now see the Chrome column in the Devices table.
Location of the Chrome column in the Devices table