CHANGELOG: May 19, 2022 / Search in panels, 11 fixed bugs

[mdubakov]

Search in panels

Earlier this year we introduced multi-panel navigation. It encourages exploration by removing unnecessary context-switching — especially, when working with related Entities.

Today, we introduce a few search-related scenarios for a seamless and consistent workflow.

1. Open a new panel on the left/right
   Ctrl+Shift+< and Ctrl+Shift+>
   When writing a feature spec, you realize you can borrow some ideas from another, not yet related feature. So you open them side-by-side and figure out which parts to reuse:

2. Close all panels and open search
   Ctrl+Shift+K
   You’ve just finished describing a huge project, your screen is full of panels, and you are ready to move on to the next task. So you close all the panels to open search and start a new “thinking session”:

3. Open search in the current panel
   Ctrl+K
   You are writing a long (and totally not boring) document on the right inspired by several sources on the left. You don’t ever come back to a source, so you reuse the same panel:

Navigation is what happens many times a day, so we’ve made sure to assign hotkeys for every action.

11 Fixed Bugs

• Text wrapping below the picture is broken in lists
• Choose a DB page if try to open mentioned context view in some case
• Error if try to open mentioned db-level context view as a panel in some case or duplicate it or open from ‘recents’ in search
• Notification formatting is weird
• Search engines should not index shared docs and entities
• [Safari] It’s impossible to apply formatting to text via formatting panel
• Formulas in Link/Unlink actions are not exported
• Js error on creation folder in Smart folder and deleting then views there
• Avatar doesn’t get changed for old notification if user upload new avatar
• Automation rules and buttons are not shared in case they have actions for renamed later fields
• ‘Unexpected view container type in view:undefined’ error on deleting view or folder with views in Smart Folder

[uniquelau]

Functionality is great.
Icons are hard.

The keyboard short cut makes sense.
However, most users will find the feature via the GUI.
The chevron is commonly used for
navigation forwards / backwards
When they user clicks the icon
It will do something different to what is expected
Perhaps the icon needs to tell the story of what will happen
A new panel with open on the side
Icons are hard.

p.s great progress, the above is meant in the most constructive of ways.