hi there, and thank you for the reply.
i have played with that option, and although it is VERY flakey in terms of reliability, it does give that level of sorting as you say. the biggest problems i have (and i have a support case open for it) are
1. i need to be able to be granular at filtering interfaces, volumes, application, but based on Node custom properties... i.e. all interfaces, on all nodes, where "xyz" appear in the "customer" custom property
2. i need to be able to filter a custom property more than once, i.e. all node names beginning with "xyz", and have "yhe" in the name somewhere else
These functions were absolutely key in the old version and we simply can not function without these abilities.
do you now if anyone has written a bespoke CPE directly manipulating the DB, and shared this? i do not want to have to pay to have one written, but it looks to be my only option.