Local Lists Overview

Local Lists Overview

URL / Keywords Local Lists

The URL/Keyword Local Lists are used to perform Actions for specific URLs for a selected Group policy. Only users assigned to that Policy’s Group, during times when the Policy is active, will be affected. Lists allow for any actions (allow, deny, assign a category, rewrite the whole URL). Local Lists have a higher priority than Shared Lists. However, System-wide Lists have a higher priority than both Local and Shared Lists. See What order are lists processed in (hyperlink, KB being created).

The Select All / Deselect All box allows you to select or deselect all the items in the list. The More and the Trash icon display when a List item is selected. The Trash icon lets you delete the select items from the list. The More icon (three vertically stacked dots) displays a menu containing the items shown in the image below.

URL/Keyword Local List in Group Policies

You can enable the URL/Keyword Local List by opening the Policy for a specific Group. You also can use the URL /Keyword Local List tab to create or share lists.
  1. Go to the Policies menu then Groups and click on the List tab.
  2. Select a Group.
  3. Click the Policies tab and then on the List tab.
  4. Select the policy you would like to edit.

  5. If a local list does not yet exist, click the URL/Keyword Local List tab and click the Create Local List button.

Adding a New Entry to a Local List

  1. When you click the Up Arrow with a Line above it, the page below displays.
  2. Clicking the Plus Sign button opens the ‘New Entry’ popup window. 

  3. When done, click the Save Entry button.
  4. Depending on the entry, 'List Suggestions' may display.
  5. You can either choose to Accept All, or Accept and Dismiss suggestions as desired.  Accepting the suggestions will make changes to how the item is filtered.

  6. The entry is added to the list.


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