# "Hide inactive" option selected always

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/hide-inactive-option-selected-always/21029>\
**Category:** Open Q&A\
**Tags:** smartscape\
**Created:** [June 18, 2019, 9:21am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/hide-inactive-option-selected-always/21029 "2019-06-18T09:21:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jgarcianar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@jgarcianar](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/jgarcianar)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2019, 9:21am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/hide-inactive-option-selected-always/21029/1 "2019-06-18T09:21:34Z")

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Hi,

Is it possible to keep selected “Hide inactive” option on Smartcape Topology always? I mean, I could “Show inactive” when I desire, but I don’t want to see 3 thousand of Candidate hosts that below to one VCenter always I connect, for example, and almost all are inactive.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![skrystosik](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/skrystosik/32/21133_2.png) [@skrystosik](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/skrystosik)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/hide-inactive-option-selected-always/21029/2 "2020-01-15T20:16:46Z")

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There is no such possibility, but you can always create management zones and use them as a filter. You can for example create one that will contains all monitored entities. This should be enough 🙂

Sebastian

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**Author:** ![HuseynNajafli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/53a042/32.png) [@HuseynNajafli](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/HuseynNajafli)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 8:46am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/hide-inactive-option-selected-always/21029/3 "2025-08-06T08:46:19Z")

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Okay. And how to write entitySelector for this?