Bookmarking Pages in the Admin Interface

[owzim]

I find myself browsing through the system to reach certain pages, settings or modules over and over again. 

It would save a lot of time if I could bookmark these pages with like a star button on top (in edit mode) or something on a system level or/and user level. Then perhaps in an extra item in the top navigation called bookmarks, would list them all. System level because other users could use them too.

Any thoughts on this? Perhaps even some suggestions how to implement that?

[ryan]

One way to do it would be to create a new template called /site/templates/bookmark.php and give it a title and URL field called 'bookmark_url'. For the code in the file:

<?php
if($page->bookmark_url) $session->redirect($page->bookmark_url); 

Now add a new page in your admin where you want the bookmark to go (like in the top navigation or in Setup), and use your new bookmark template. Enter the title and the URL you want to bookmark to and save. 

This is the same approach used for a front-end redirect template. In this case, you could use the same template on the front-end for that too.