Linking to a host does not work when the wrong location is selected

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Problem:
From an internal dashboard we link directly to hosts pages, for example https://foreman.mycompany.com/hosts/hosta.mycompany.com. But when the Location that was last picked on the foreman UI does not match the location of the specified host, foreman reports " Host not found Please try to update your request"

Expected outcome:
Foreman should show the hosts page of the specified host, regardless of the last picked location.

Foreman and Proxy versions:
Foreman version 2.2.1

Foreman and Proxy plugin versions:

Distribution and version:
Debian 10

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Hi,
this is expected & correct behavior, if a host machine is not under the scope of selected organization / location, users should not be able to see the host.

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Maybe it is correct, but it’s not expected, at least not by me. Especially since it is not possible to do anything from the page shown. There is only a back button. There is no option to change the Location when at that page,since none of the menu bars are shown.

Even having a hosts page open in one tab, and selecting a different Location in another tab, makes it impossible to refresh the hosts page. Instead the same error is shown. I would not call this expected behavior.

Is there a parameter which we can add to the URL maybe? Something like ?location=any for example?

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The nav bar should be shown in Foreman 2.4.0, there was a bug that users without view_locations/organizations permissions could not switch it (Bug #29914: User without view_organization permission cannot switch organization - Foreman). As a workaround until 2.4.0 is released (around March) you could grant the user the relevant view permissions.

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You are right, it’s confusing for the case you described.
Sadly I don’t know simple solution for your case, so far I came up with two ways how fix the issue:

  • On error page show menus (left & top) so users can change the scope
  • Allow to define scope with URL parameters organization_id & location_id (right allowed only for API calls)