It would be even better if Content Studio altered the URL as you were typing in search in the search field in Content Studio, so you could easily copy and paste the url to share the current search with others, add it to documentation or bookmark it.
I believe this would also allow users to set up site search in their browsers and then easily search for content in content studio from the browser adresse bar:
Search improvements are indeed planned (see the last Roadmap update) but it’s taking longer than expected.
The changes will include:
Search-in-tree: filter the tree to show only specific items
Search for content that uses specific page components (parts & layouts)
Deep linking: save filter settings as a shortcut link. Note that linking to a specific widget (like dependency view from your example) is a not a part of this.
Deep linking: save filter settings as a shortcut link.
I’m not entirely sure what that means.
Is this link random or predictable? By that I mean, will external tools be able to generate a link that passes parameters that will perform the search when the page loads?
So for instance, all of these URLs can be used as search engines in the nav bar of browsers:
Content Studio has a filter panel on the left. User will be able to save its settings for later use (or sharing). We will most likely not use query parameters as in your example because we don’t want to clutter Content Studio’s URL, but rather generate a hash which will be mapped to the saved filter parameters, kind of like bit.ly works.
