# Dynamic CI - filter builds list for specified jobs

**URL:** <https://forum.buildkite.community/t/dynamic-ci-filter-builds-list-for-specified-jobs/2994>\
**Category:** Features Requests\
**Created:** [July 5, 2023, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/dynamic-ci-filter-builds-list-for-specified-jobs/2994 "2023-07-05T20:22:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Charlie](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/Charlie)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/dynamic-ci-filter-builds-list-for-specified-jobs/2994/1 "2023-07-05T20:22:45Z")

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It’d be nice for debugging dynamic workflows if the pipeline-level builds view provided a quick way to filter for builds that ran specified jobs. The recent UI update to the builds list view hides job names from the list, so it’s a bit more painful to find them now than before.

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**Author:** ![Ozdenyilmaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f08c70/32.png) [@Ozdenyilmaz](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/Ozdenyilmaz)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 5:06am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/dynamic-ci-filter-builds-list-for-specified-jobs/2994/2 "2023-07-06T05:06:41Z")

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Hi @Charlie ,

I am from the product team at Buildkite. Thanks for the feedback. Could you tell me a bit more about what you mean when you say specified jobs? Would you like to see all jobs? Or just a subset? If yes is there anything common about that subset of jobs?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Charlie](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/Charlie)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/dynamic-ci-filter-builds-list-for-specified-jobs/2994/3 "2023-07-06T20:39:42Z")

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@Ozdenyilmaz,

Sure. I’d like to be able to see just a subset. Suppose my build _may_ run jobs “foo”, “bar” and “baz”, but “baz” is only rarely dynamically included in the build. I would like a way to see just builds that _did_ run “baz.”

This is currently possible with the builds API, but that’s a bit overkill for my use-case, so a readily available filter in the web UI would be nice.

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**Author:** ![Ozdenyilmaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f08c70/32.png) [@Ozdenyilmaz](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/Ozdenyilmaz)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/dynamic-ci-filter-builds-list-for-specified-jobs/2994/4 "2023-07-06T22:55:15Z")

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Hi @Charlie , thanks a lot for the explanation! Is there something common about these dynamically generated steps? Like are they a deploy step or and extra step or is it totally random?

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**Author:** ![Charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Charlie](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/Charlie)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/dynamic-ci-filter-builds-list-for-specified-jobs/2994/5 "2023-07-07T16:30:02Z")

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@Ozdenyilmaz our CI pipeline is composed of one set-up step with all of the other steps selected dynamically based on the files changed in the associated commit. So it’s pretty much random.

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**Author:** ![Ozdenyilmaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f08c70/32.png) [@Ozdenyilmaz](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/Ozdenyilmaz)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 2:06am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/dynamic-ci-filter-builds-list-for-specified-jobs/2994/6 "2023-08-23T02:06:22Z")

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Hi @Charlie , could you tell me the name of your organisation so we can turn on the work we did for this piece of feedback early for your organisation?
