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Search Results Window: "Back to Search Origin" button

Status: Declined

Any idea that has received less than 6 kudos within 6 years after posting will be automatically declined.

The simple suggestionis, in case a search is initiated from a diagram or front panel (by a right-click aciton), to memorize internally where that query was sent from, and provide a link back to that place in the Search Results window.

Of course if the Search is initiated by a Ctrl-F, it is probably a lot more complex to restore the situation to what it was before the search (windows could have opened, or be brought into focus, etc), so I am not including this in the suggestion.

 

Case study:

 

I find a reference, or a terminal, or whatever that belongs to a control or an indicator.

Now, I want to check all the places where a Property Node for this object appears.

I right-click >> Find Property Nodes and get the Search Results window opened.

Now, should I select any of the hits and try to "Go To" it, I instantly loose the location I started from (and where rather naturally, I may very well want to come back to resume work).

 

Of course, as a possible workaround (assuming I think about it, which is unlikely), I could drop a simple bookmark like #0 and once done with my PN exploration, go to the Bookmark Manager and find where #0 is located, but I will probably foget to do that most of the time.

 

PS: this is different from this idea, although the title may make it sound similar.

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Darren
Proven Zealot
Status changed to: Declined

Any idea that has received less than 6 kudos within 6 years after posting will be automatically declined.