Define use cases and useful commands

[Sebobo]

Use cases and ideas

• Edit / Preview

  • Quickly switch preview modes to view a page in different states (suggested by @jonnitto)
    • Allow moving / dragging the command bar to not cover the content
  • Open preview for current document (suggested by @PRGfx)

• Editing

  • Quickly open create node dialog while working on a content node to continue with the next part of content
    • Open create dialog command
    • Open command bar while inline editing and having create node as "recommended" command (relates to CMD+K / CTRL+K Shortcut and inputs not always captured by command bar plugin #8)
  • Reload guest frame (via hotkey inclusion)

• Navigation

  • Quickly navigate to another document (see Search for document node by label #3)
  • Quickly navigate to a module and sites
    • Also allow to navigate between and back from a module (needs separate plugin with reduced command set)
  • Integrate Neos docs (see Search Neos docs via JSON endpoint #26)
  • Integrate Neos package search (see Search Neos packages #27)

• Extensibility

  • Plugin system for 3rd party commands (see Extensiblity #12)
    • Start with Neos.Terminal as first command source (see Extensiblity #12)

• Languages

  • Quickly switch language / dimension (see Allow to switch language / dimensions #1)

• Workspaces

  • Publish / Discard changes (see Command to publish, switch and jump to review current workspace #6)
  • Switch to another workspace (see Command to publish, switch and jump to review current workspace #6) (suggested by @PRGfx)
  • Switch to workspace review (see Command to publish, switch and jump to review current workspace #6)

[PRGfx]

Some additional ideas:

• switch workspace
• reload guest-frame (I know there is a shortcut for that, but I like fuzzy finding a command by typing rather than remembering hotkeys)
• (reload node-trees)
• set filter for document-tree (node-type and search-term)
• open frontend-preview
• go to node-property/reveal property(/view) in inspector (a bit like Inspector search neos/neos-ui#675 and/or Make inspector tabs/groups focusable from the outside neos/neos-ui#3350; as the UI is lacking focus behavior, this probably wouldn't be very practical for the time being)

[Sebobo]

Hi @PRGfx, thx for the ideas. Some notes:

• "Reload guest frame" is already available with the Reload ContentCanvas as I load all hotkeys as commands (and filter a lot out which don't work).
  If it doesn't seem to be a big benefit to load the hotkeys as commands, we could of course choose the useful ones and implement the in the plugin itself as command to improve UX. ContentCanvas is probably not a useful term for most users.

• "Reload node-trees", why would this be helpful? Shouldn't it be rare for the tree to get out-of-sync, or is the use case rather that more people work in parallel and one wants to see the newly added or removed elements by the other?

[PRGfx]

Oh I didn't notice the hotkey actions are already available, cool.
Some naming could probably improved, yes (for example "Live" for the preview mode isn't really descriptive imo, but thats off topic).

As for the node-trees: true, I mostly used this after migrations etc when I don't want to reload the whole backend ^^ But good point with updating changes from editors.
It was more a thought about how most actions should probably also be available to fuzzy search and the ones without context (i.e. not depending on the selected node etc) are probably lower hanging fruits, but in fact the usefulness is probably limited – as long as the overall tabbability of the backend is a bit difficult, I feel like I would still need to click buttons a lot anyways.