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Status Under review
Workspace IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 2, 2025

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Provide manual sorting order for matchTokens values entered into a rule via the UI

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matchTokens processing on event reception halts after the first resource matching a token is found. This provides an implicit ordering of token values to be entered from most-specific to most-generic. Achieving this is trivial when creating matchToken values via e.g. the File Observer by specifying the values in the desired order.

However, values entered into the "Tokens" multi-entry box when defining a matchTokens rule in the User Interface are automatically sorted into alphabetical order, and the actual values of the matchToken strings produced is in the sorted value order, which overrides the ability to impose any specific ordering. This behaviour appears not to be override-able.

Either prevent the automatic sorting of entered field values (accepting them in entered order) or provide a manual sorting order after entry (drag and dropping values?) to allow for the same flexibility in user control of matchTokens order as can be achieved when specifying the value order when submitting topology via Observers. 

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