# Device overview filter box
**URL:** https://forums.losant.com/t/device-overview-filter-box/1921
**Category:** Help
**Tags:** devices
**Created:** [June 25, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/device-overview-filter-box/1921 "2019-06-25T14:50:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@paul\_wareham](https://forums.losant.com/u/paul_wareham)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/device-overview-filter-box/1921/1 "2019-06-25T14:50:35Z")
I’m having a hard time using the filter box in the device overview page of the main Losant UI. The box implies that we can search on the value field of the device tags. The search seems to pick up device names very well, but I can’t get it to pickup the results of the device tag value. It simply returns no result when I search for a tag value that I know exists. I’ve tried just inserting the text of the value by itself and also searching for TAG=value but neither works for me.
Am I missing something really obvious?
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### Author:  [@JuliaKempf](https://forums.losant.com/u/JuliaKempf)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2019, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/device-overview-filter-box/1921/2 "2019-06-25T15:23:17Z")
Hi @paul_wareham,
Just wanted to confirm, you are referring to the filter on this page:
Thanks!
Julia
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### Author:  [@paul\_wareham](https://forums.losant.com/u/paul_wareham)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/device-overview-filter-box/1921/3 "2019-06-25T18:23:12Z")
yes @JuliaKempf, that’s correct
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### Author:  [@JuliaKempf](https://forums.losant.com/u/JuliaKempf)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/device-overview-filter-box/1921/4 "2019-06-25T19:29:01Z")
Hi Paul,
I do see what you mean, manually typing the key value pair into the filter does not bring the matching devices up the way it does for device names. For tags, there is a pre-populated list that should expand below the filter with key/value tag pairs, the tags must be selected from the list to filter.
Thanks!
Julia
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### Author:  [@paul\_wareham](https://forums.losant.com/u/paul_wareham)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/device-overview-filter-box/1921/5 "2019-06-25T19:49:14Z")
Thanks. I suppose that could be another feature suggestion: arbitrary searching for tag values in the device list.
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### Author:  [@Paul\_Muschick](https://forums.losant.com/u/Paul_Muschick)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/device-overview-filter-box/1921/6 "2020-06-02T13:44:25Z")
Any info about when this feature will be fixed, either to allow for filtering by the pre-populated list or by arbitrary tag values like Paul originally suggested? I keep forgetting that the filter doesn’t work and it’s frustrating to filter/search for a device that exists but the device isn’t returned by the filter.
Example.
1. There exists a device with a “serialNumber” tag that has a value of “361700001”
2. I attempt to filter on “serialNumber=36170001”, either by intuitively pressing enter after typing the expression or by clicking on the “Search…” popup below the input box
3. The filter does not return the single device that should match the filtering criteria
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### Author:  [@Heath](https://forums.losant.com/u/Heath)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/device-overview-filter-box/1921/12 "2020-06-18T16:08:16Z")
Hi @Paul_Muschick, @paul_wareham!
I wanted to reach out and let you both know that this has been updated in our last [Platform Update](https://www.losant.com/blog/platform-update-bulk-device-actions).
Let me know if you have any more questions.
Thank you,
Heath