CMS - Keyboard shortcuts & interaction improvements

Having the CMS is great, but its input mechanism still feels like editing a MySQL-database. Therefore, some ideas to make using the CMS and Editor easier and faster for us WF-enthousiasts.

1. Keyboard shortcuts to speed up changes and allow for faster data input

Right now, the CMS editor is mouse-based. Thus, making changes ultimately ends up with a LOT of mouse movement and clicking the "SAVE" button. I'd opt-in to allow for more keyboard-based control of the CMS and the Editor to improve speed, with options such as:

  • Save CMS item (CTRL + S)
  • Next or previous item - and possibly move through entire CMS (CTRL + Arrows)
  • Search inside collection (CTRL + F)
  • Search inside CMS (CTRL + SHIFT + F)
  • Save as Draft (CTRL + SHIFT + S)
  • Publish all (CTRL + SHIFT + P)

2. Batch Edit : Edit multiple CMS-items at once

Editing multiple CMS-items in the Designer and Editor is a pain. It takes endless mouse action (and thus time) to do simple tasks such as assign a reference field, and then save the change. [see point 1] Especially if you make changes to the settings of an existing CMS-collection, changing 10+ items is horrendous.

Currently we can "delete", "draft" and "archive" items. Looking through this forum we like to have these options to edit multiple items at once:

  • Assign a (multi)-reference field for multiple items
  • Change any value for multiple items [such as rating, price, published date, author, etc.]
  • Duplicate multiple items
  • IWOO
  • Nov 26 2019
  • Reviewed
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  • Nicolas Pettini commented
    20 Jul, 2023 03:13pm

    That'd be great!

  • Web Designer commented
    31 Mar, 2021 08:54am

    Yes please! Also, please add the "c" keyboard shortcut to open the CMS panel (like "p" for pages, "j" for media, "a" for components...)

  • Sophia Voychehovski commented
    10 Jun, 2020 12:37pm

    Yes please! For my team specifically, we suffer with selecting from a single-reference collection that has about 300 items in it. LOTS OF SCROLLING. Would love type-ahead. Like when you open a dropdown with a list of states and you can type G to jump to Georgia. This is SO painful right now and opens up a big possibility for user error.

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