"Drill down" button to ease searching in IPAM prefix and address table views #6288

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adam · 2025-12-29T19:39:00+01:00

adam commented

2025-12-29 19:39:00 +01:00

Originally created by @DetunizedGravity on GitHub (Apr 3, 2022).

NetBox version

v3.1.7

Feature type

New functionality

Proposed functionality

My proposal is to add a "drill down" and a "climb up" button on each result line in the global table view.

The "drill down" button would :

replace or create the current "within_include" filter value with the prefix of its line,
leave all other filters in place unmodified,
reload the filter results accordingly.

The "climb up" button would:

replace or create the current "within_include" filter value with parent prefix of the prefix of its line,
leave all other filters in place unmodified,
reload the filter results accordingly.

Use case

I have seen a arguments about the IPAM prefix views especially about the removal of the "collapse/expand" feature in the main table view. And I can say that I am myself quite dissatisfied with how hard it is to navigate the IPAM.

There are two views. one provides extensive filtering abilities, and one provides easy up and down navigation. We cannot have both, what is I believe at the core of all these arguments. Navigating up and down within the main view implies going forth and back between the table and the filter views, to modify manually the "within_include" filter.

Other improvments that would make this even more beneficial would be to make the "depth__lte" filter persistent, but this will probably deserve its own feature request at a later time.

Database changes

None

External dependencies

None

Originally created by @DetunizedGravity on GitHub (Apr 3, 2022). ### NetBox version v3.1.7 ### Feature type New functionality ### Proposed functionality My proposal is to add a "drill down" and a "climb up" button on each result line in the global table view. The "drill down" button would : * replace or create the current "within_include" filter value with the prefix of its line, * **leave all other filters in place unmodified,** * reload the filter results accordingly. The "climb up" button would: * replace or create the current "within_include" filter value with parent prefix of the prefix of its line, * **leave all other filters in place unmodified,** * reload the filter results accordingly. ### Use case I have seen a arguments about the IPAM prefix views especially about the removal of the "collapse/expand" feature in the main table view. And I can say that I am myself quite dissatisfied with how hard it is to navigate the IPAM. There are two views. one provides extensive filtering abilities, and one provides easy up and down navigation. We cannot have both, what is I believe at the core of all these arguments. Navigating up and down within the main view implies going forth and back between the table and the filter views, to modify manually the "within_include" filter. Other improvments that would make this even more beneficial would be to make the "depth__lte" filter persistent, but this will probably deserve its own feature request at a later time. ### Database changes None ### External dependencies None

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Reference: starred/netbox#6288