I create mainly single page applications, therefore I have a dense structure of groups/subgroups/sub-subgroups.
I spend a lot of time just navigating in my structure, opening and closing stuff in my elements tree.
What would be super cool is if there was a way to create shortcuts to elements of the tree structure.
I would love to define my product pages that way.
Example : shortcut “home” is “index->gp page->gp right zone->gp home page”
Are you using Reusable Elements? You could do what you’re trying to do in REs. Plus, it greatly improves editor performance
Yes I do use RE. Within my pages.
But I’d rather not define each page as a reusable element which would -at least- add some workflows complexity
Use backend workflows so you could use the workflows anywhere in your app instead of using the headache workarounds to make your REs “communicate” with each other
You cannot, without reusable elements, reasonably develop a SPA that’s anything more than a couple of pages. Editor too slow, too many workflows to understand what’s going on, easy to create conflicts with logic…
I understand both of you. Thank you. I’ll try to keep that in mind in the future and make the most out of backend workflows (BEWF)
That being said, BEWF bring other complexities.
It’s interesting tho to see that the problem I am having with navigating my tee structure might be answered differently from other people.
It’s never been an issue for me as SPA element tree is just Group body → page REs.
If you want each page to have the same functionality, create a RE (let’s call it universal workflows) that you can paste in each of the pages (assuming they’re a RE as well). Then add the workflows needed in the first RE (universal workflows).
This allows you to add universal WF’s within your other RE (like your pages) and then utilize each page and focus on a single RE that holds most of your functionality.
Now you can put your RE pages inside your page, then add the universal workflow alongside them simultaneously.
Looks like this turned into an argument of using RE’s vs. just having the groups on your page…
Getting this back on topic, THIS is absolutely a shared issue I have – And I can see how I, without a SPA app, could use this feature (even without a SPA, I have lots of groups, many just for formatting purposes).
There are many hidden groups I have on a page… and it would be great to favorite those so I can click them immediately and not constantly be doing “Show All Children”, “Show All Children”, “Show All Children”.
