Clever technique stopped working?

[Forester1]

A while back, someone posted this great method for finding assets with no dependents. I used it just last week to filter out some assets I was not using:

To identify assets that have no dependents:

• Open CM on default "Installed" filter
• Select one random asset
• Hit Ctrl+A
• Right click and select "List Dependencies Recursively"
• Click anywhere in "Asset KUID" field
• Hit Ctrl+A then Ctrl+C
• Close the window
• Create a new custom filter: Installed=True, AND NOT, Asset KUID
• Click "AssetKUID" field
• Hit Ctrl+V

CM now lists allassets that are not a dependency of any other one.

Today, I am trying to use this rule again, but when I hit the last step, to hit Ctrl+V to paste in the assets, it only pastes one asset. I can paste the whole list into notepad, and I can try copying back from notepad, but for some reason, when I Try to paste into the Asset KUID field it only pastes one asset. I can't figure out that I am doing anything different. Does anyone else get this result? I am using build 117009.

 

[pware]

To identify assets that have no dependents:

• Open CM on default "Installed" filter
• Select one random asset
• Hit Ctrl+A
• Right click and select "List Dependencies Recursively"
• Click anywhere in "Asset KUID" field
• Hit Ctrl+A then Ctrl+C
• Close the window
• Create a new custom filter: Installed=True, AND NOT, Asset KUID
• Click "AssetKUID" field
• Hit Ctrl+V

when I Try to paste into the Asset KUID field it only pastes one asset. I can't figure out that I am doing anything different. Does anyone else get this result? I am using build 117009.

The answer is that you are using an incorrect step

• Open CM on default "Installed" filter
• Select one random asset
• Hit Ctrl+A
• Right click and select "List Dependencies Recursively" - IGNORE this step
• Right Click and select "List Assets in New Window" - use this step instead
• Click anywhere in "Asset KUID" field
• Hit Ctrl+A then Ctrl+C
• Close the window
• Create a new custom filter: Installed=True, AND NOT, Asset KUID
• Click "AssetKUID" field
• Hit Ctrl+V

 

[Forester1]

Thanks Pware, but that doesn't seem to work for me. The idea is to list everything that is a dependency and then create a list that is NOT those. If I just Ctrl-A and list the whole asset list into another window, I end up with the same list of all assets. When I list the dependencies recursively, it does create a new window, of all the dependencies. That is the list needed for the AND NOT logic, yes? Again, the logic appears to give me the list I want, but then it isn't pasting the list into the last step, like it did last week. It only pastes one KUID

EDIT. I figured it out. The original instructions are OK. In Step five, I was right-clicking in the resultant Asset ID column, not in the Asset KUID field at the top. Copying that worked when I got to the end.