Add 'Favorite workflows' item to main menu

[Kazimierz]

Hello,

My suggestion is to add new item to the main menu. The item could be named ‘Favorite workflows’ and would be dedicated for favorite workflows. It could look like this:

‘Recent’ item offers recently used workflow, however the list might be quite long.
There is the full structure of folders and workflows behind ‘Local space’ and ‘KNIME Community Hub’ items.
‘Favorite workflows’ item could provide quick access to selected workflows, no matter when there have been used recently or where they are stored.

The three main features related to ‘Favorite workflows’ could be:

1. Add workflow to ‘Favorite workflows’.
2. Remove workflow from ‘Favorite workflows’.
3. Change the sequence of workflows in ‘Favorite workflows’.

Happy KNIMEing!

[HaveF]

I think your idea is great. In fact, favorite node also needs such a centralized management place.

[takbb]

Hi @Kazimierz , I have voted for this as it is something I feel very strongly would be useful. I am always in favour of any functionality that enables us to return quickly to our past work without the burden of “remembering” or “excessive clicks”. I’m “old-fashioned” in that way

I actually raised something similar as a suggestion, but it was during the “community hacking” event for the 5.4 release, and therefore not in the public forum, so glad to see somebody else requesting this too.

This was what I wrote:

@takbb

I find the Recent Workflows page in Modern UI to be hugely beneficial to me in returning to a workflow I was working on last week, but I’d like to see an additional similar feature “Bookmarked Workflows”.

Reason: I have loads of workflows that I’ve been working on, but there are some I need to return to periodically, some almost daily but others maybe every couple of months or so, when I get specific requests, and I have to remind myself where they are saved and, of course, what they are called!

I find myself having to note this in a word document when really it would be better, and certainly more efficient, if I could mark these important, regular workflows within KNIME AP itself.

If we had a facility where we were able to bookmark (any number of) key workflows and have a page similar to “Recent Workflows” that displayed them, and allowed us to open them, I believe that would be really beneficial.

@DanielBog replied to me as follows:

@DanielBog

Hey takbb,

I love the idea and created a ticket for it (internal reference: NXT-3119).
I would even go one step further and enable bookmarking also for components and really cool would be to see these bookmarks to work on components/workflows on the community hub as well.

Greetings and thanks,
Daniel

So linking that in here, and hopeful a +1 (and your ideas) can be added to ticket NXT-3119