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    MeshCentral never updates the display name

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    • JaredBusch
      JaredBusch last edited by

      I opened a support issue for this one.

      https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral/issues/143

      Maybe I'm spoiled by ScreenConnect, but I simply assumed that the name I see would always reflect the hostname.

      I mean they set it to the hostname to start with, so why the hell wouldn't that update when the hostname updates?

      I get that you might want your own fixed name. I set a very few devices in each group with a fixed name in ScreenConnect to put them on top of the list. But generally, I want things to update as the device updates over time.

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      • scottalanmiller
        scottalanmiller @JaredBusch last edited by

        @JaredBusch said in MeshCentral never updates the display name:

        Maybe I'm spoiled by ScreenConnect, but I simply assumed that the name I see would always reflect the hostname.

        We often alter than manually. It uses hostname as default, but then it's just stored.

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        • scottalanmiller
          scottalanmiller last edited by

          I would prefer hostname as a separate "detected" field that is always there, and the display name as one that doesn't change on us.

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          • JaredBusch
            JaredBusch @scottalanmiller last edited by

            @scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral never updates the display name:

            I would prefer hostname as a separate "detected" field that is always there, and the display name as one that doesn't change on us.

            I don't care what the default setting is, as long as it is a setting that I can choose, because I will hate having to update crap all the time.

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