Custom fields - add ability to filter and sort by object type

[matejv]

NetBox version

v4.4.6

Feature type

New functionality

Proposed functionality

Add ability to filter Custom fields list (/extras/custom-fields/) by their assigned Object Types.

Also make Object types column sortable. Though I suspect there is a good reason that sorting is disabled. Just filtering would go a long way to make the list more manageable.

Use case

You could for example filter all custom fields that are assigned to Interface.

Once you get to a few dozen and more custom fields in a netbox installation it becomes difficult to quickly see what fields belong where.

Database changes

No response

External dependencies

No response

[mr1716]

@matejv would it be easier to track the ask for making the Object Types table columns sortable if it were a separate ticket? And maybe more likely to have either or both tickets handled?

Not a maintainer so not authoritative in any way but just some food for thought

[jnovinger]

Unfortunately, making the Object Type field sortable is not feasible, because of it's many-to-many nature.

However, we should absolutely add a filter form field for the object_types field, especially since there are already filterset fields available for use (e.g. object_type=tenancy.Tenant or object_type_id=110, which both work for the Tenant model in my instance).

[pheus]

I'd like to contribute this enhancement. Can you please assign this issue to me? Thank you!

[jnovinger]

Thanks, @pheus. All yours!

[jnovinger]

FWIW, this can be targeted at main to be released in patch release.