Remove direct insert in Navigation block in favour of improving the Link UI search #50176
Labels
[Block] Navigation
Affects the Navigation Block
[Feature] Link Editing
Link components (LinkControl, URLInput) and integrations (RichText link formatting)
[Type] Enhancement
A suggestion for improvement.
Let's avoid surfacing the variations of the Link block, instead focusing on the concept of adding an item to the navigation. This would reduce the need to decide what type of block to add, before searching for the item to be added.
This requires the following:
Posts
andPages
. This will service 80% of the use cases whilst also improving the likelihood of searching returning useful results. An alternative would be to allow all results by default, like the Custom Link. Having a method to filter the results increases the likelihood of finding relevant content (specifically pages).Visual (Link inserter)
CleanShot.2023-04-28.at.16.02.01.mp4
Visual (Filtering)
In this visual I am opting to search for a post category:
CleanShot.2023-04-28.at.15.44.28.mp4
Co-authored by @richtabor.
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