Support “Open in new tab / window” for all buttons
Ramon Schouten
Currently, not all buttons in HelloID support standard browser options such as
“Open link in new tab”
or “Open link in new window”
.This is especially noticeable when working with larger lists, such as Products or Business Rules. Users often want to open multiple items in parallel, but are forced to open them one by one in the same tab, losing their current search or filter each time.
Suggested Improvement
Add support for standard browser link behavior to all relevant buttons in HelloID, so actions can be opened using:
- Ctrl + click
- Middle mouse click
- “Open link in new tab” / “Open link in new window”
Benefit
- Consistent navigation behavior across the UI.
- Faster workflow when working with many items.
- No loss of search terms or filters.
- Improved overall user experience.
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Michiel van der Veeken
Ramon Schouten Thank you for your feedback
I understand your feature request. That said, this isn’t a straightforward change to implement.
HelloID’s modules are developed separately, and the UI elements (such as buttons) aren’t always implemented in the same way across modules. For example, one button might navigate to a new page, while another opens a modal on the current page. In some areas, specific URL routing is also not available, which means it’s not always possible to navigate directly to a page or modal.
To help us better estimate the required effort, we ask that a separate feature request ticket is created per HelloID module where this functionality is missing. Each ticket should clearly describe the relevant page and button or action involved.
If there is sufficient interest across modules, we can further explore the possibilities and evaluate next steps.
Thank you in advance.
Ramon Schouten
Michiel van der Veeken
Thanks for the explanation. I ran into a very concrete example of this today within
Delegated Forms
, so I wanted to add that use case here.Today I'm working on modifying a larger number of Delegated Forms. For example, I need to update around 20 forms with
"report"
in their name.Currently I have to search for
report
, open one Delegated Form, make the changes, return to the overview, enter report
again, find the next form, open it, and repeat this for every form.If the Delegated Forms in the overview could be opened using
Ctrl + click / Open in new tab
, I could simply open all relevant forms from my filtered results in separate tabs and process them one by one. This would make this type of bulk maintenance much faster and less frustrating.Another improvement that would help is preserving the
search term and selected number of forms to display
when returning to the overview, instead of resetting these each time. I realize that is a different request, though.For this specific use case, supporting
Open in new tab for Delegated Forms
would already solve the main problem and would be my preferred way of working.Hopefully this gives you a concrete module/page and use case to estimate the required effort.