Jump to object in Object Explorer

[alextercete]

It's currently possible to jump to a file in Explorer using the shortcut Cmd/Ctrl+p and typing a part of the filename. Opening a file like this is normally quicker than navigating to the file in Explorer, especially if you take advantage of the fuzzy search capabilities of the dialog:

It'd be useful if that search dialog allowed jumping to objects in the Object Explorer as well. The list of objects could be the same used by the search widget on the Dashboard (it would be nice to add the ability to jump to the object in Object Explorer in that widget too, using the context menu):

Potential use case

I want to see the columns of the HumanResources.Employee table, so I:

1. Hit Cmd/Ctrl+p

2. Type hre

3. HumanResources.Employee appears as the first result

4. Hit Enter

5. HumanResources.Employee is given focus (and maybe expanded) in Object Explorer:

   

6. Expand the Columns node

[kburtram]

@MattIrv please look at this suggestion when designing the OE extensibility API. Thanks!

[MattIrv]

Object explorer APIs for this are now available and will be included in the March release so that extension authors could add functionality like this if desired, though we haven't implemented any user-facing code to actually expose a dialog box like the suggested one yet

[kburtram]

@alextercete is there anything else you need on this issue in terms of extension APIs?

[alextercete]

@kburtram As far as interacting with the Object Explorer goes, I think the current API does the job well. I guess the workflow to navigate to an object from the Quick Open dialog (similarly to happens with a file on disk) would still require some extension points, but I'm happy to open a separate suggestion for that.