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I'm finding the Dashboard incredibly frustrating. It doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. It is an ideal resource for advanced slicing and filtering a large set of connection objects, so I can identify and open connections that match certain criteria. However, once I have filtered my list down to what I need, there's nothing I can do with it -- I can't seem to export that list to a file, or copy that list to the clipboard as CSV, or anything else. All I can do is connect to one, or bulk-edit / bulk-connect a selection. Most importantly, though (at least for me), is that the second I actually open a connection from that filtered list, the whole list disappears and is replaced with a context-based view, depending on the connection type. In 99% of cases, for me, that is supposed to be a list of active Terminal Sessions on the currently connected server (but, for some reason, this is always completely empty). But there is no way to get back to the list I have spent my time filtering, so I can connect to what would have been the next one in my list. If I click the only place I know to get the context back to filtering objects (i.e. the navigation tree), all my filtering is gone and I have to start again. While I know I can filter my connections, select them all and tell them to open all at once, that doesn't work as well as I'd like either -- if any one of the connections fails, the bulk-connect loop stops, and the Dashboard has already changed and lost my list, so there's nothing I can do about it. Besides, opening 300 connections at once is hardly friendly on my resources. In general, I have only one use for the Dashboard -- that's to access the screen which lets me bulk-select and filter the connection objects, and I could really do with that "connection object viewer" being a fixed, static tab that doesn't change from under me based on context (and export would be nice-to-have, too!). I am sure other people have many uses for the other views of that Dashboard, but I think these would be better as separate, first-order options in the View ribbon, which open independent tabs. You could leave some contextual logic to show/hide certain views (e.g. Terminal Sessions) based on whether we are using a connection type that benefits from those views, but the advanced connection filtering/navigation view should not be contextual.

Hi Stefan Re copying/exporting from the folder dashboard: the folder view is useful in that it shows a tabular view of all the settings for all connections, which can be filtered and sorted like an Excel spreadsheet. Sometimes, it would be useful to get that table into something like a real spreadsheet or list (e.g. if I want to read it, loop through it with a script; or import it into another system, like an asset database). I figured a CSV export of that view would be easiest to implement. A similar thing can be seen in Windows MMC views, where the typical right-hand panel often has context-menu option called Export List, which will write the panel content to a text file.