Improved Bulk Selection for Host Pool Group Tagging

We currently manage approximately 400 host pools, and in several scenarios we need to apply a Group Tag to 300+ host pools at once. While Nerdio does support adding Group Tags, the current selection experience does not scale well for environments of this size.

Today, selecting host pools is a manual, time‑consuming process. As host pools are selected, they fill the screen, and eventually the UI only allows selecting one remaining host pool at a time by scrolling through a long list. In practice, this can take well over an hour to complete for large environments.

I understand this limitation may not impact smaller enterprises with 20–30 host pools, but at larger scale it becomes extremely inefficient and, frankly, counterproductive. At this point, the built‑in UI workflow is often slower and less practical than scripting, which defeats the purpose of having a centralized management platform.

Proposed Improvement

Instead of the current inline selection method (which is used elsewhere in Nerdio), it would be extremely helpful to have a pop‑out selection window, similar to the experience in Azure. This window would:

  • Display all host pools at once (or at least 100 at a time)
  • Allow multi‑select, including select‑all / bulk selection
  • Support searching and filtering
  • Make it easy to apply Group Tags to large numbers of host pools in a single action

This type of selection experience would dramatically reduce administrative overhead, improve usability for large enterprises, and make Nerdio far more effective at scale.

Instead of this:
 

 

Could we get something like this:

 

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Raul Morales

Hi Roger Stuart  - Thank you for raising this.

We are currently able to expand the host pool list to show 100 host pools at one time.
It sounds like adding a new dropdown to be able to add tags and tag groups to the selected host pools would work for your situation, could you confirm?

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Roger Stuart

Hi Raul,

Yes! Adding Tags and Tag Groups as an option under “Select Bulk Action” would absolutely make this 99% easier.

I suggested modifying it at the Tag Group window because there are other areas—such as “Edit Role Assignment”—where a full pop‑out window would also be helpful. In that case, though, I’m only dealing with 30+ workspaces, which is certainly manageable under the current system.

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Raul Morales

Got it - thank you for confirming! We'll investigate adding this as an option.

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Roger Stuart
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HI Raul,

Let me know if this should be a separate request.  

Could we also get the option to apply the tags to newly added pools and objects within it only?

As is, If I add one pool to the existing 400 and don't check the “Update custom tags on existing resources” it only applies the tag to the pool and not the objects within it.  If I do check it, it the reapplies the tag to all 400 pools and objects which takes upwards of 30 minutes.  

Something like this or something similar as a bulk action.  

 

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