Cumulocity IoT - Tell us your Idea
In different widgets, regardless whether they present data points, properties or alarms, it should be possible to provide wildcards - on top of filtering and selecting individual names. This would allow to pre-select data points, properties or alarms created in the future based on their naming scheme.
I agree that the mechanism for locating items (managed objects, measurements or events/alarms), and the apparent use of wildcards is not intuitive in various parts of the platform.
For example: in inventory roles, its possible to use "*" to represent "all types". It's not obvious which, and how many types this represents, so you can't do a sanity-check or spot that you might have included a type that's not what you intended. It's also not obvious is you can use partial wildcards here - e.g. "*Position*" - but I'm guessing that this won't work?
In some parts of the platform this could lead to potentially serious unintended consequences: e.g. in nominating items to be part of inventory roles, or DataBroker (where unintended addition of the wrong items now or in the future could amount to a GDPR or intellecual property leak).
In general, if wildcards are used anywhere in the platform, I think it would be helpful if the user were shown a list of current matches, allowed to tick them (some or all), and also explicitly ask the question "Include future matches for this search?"