Opening Command Palette0:01
As developers, we love a good keyboard shortcut, but forges new command palette goes a step beyond just keyboard shortcuts. And it even goes beyond Forge one point OH'S original quick search by making nearly every feature the entire application accessible through the keyboard. So let's visit the Forge homepage and hit either command K or control K on a pc. Before we even look at any of these prefilled suggestions, let's just start typing and see what matches.
Searching by Typing0:21
Before we even look at any of these prefilled suggestions, let's just start typing and see what matches. We can type in the name of a site, a server, a recipe, although we don't have any right now, a team or even a broader concept in our account, like server providers. We can also dive deeper underneath some of these entities like sites and servers. So before hitting enter to navigate there, if we were to type, for example, a server,
Scoped Context Actions0:46
So before hitting enter to navigate there, if we were to type, for example, a server, we can hit command enter, or control enter. And now underneath here there's a different set of suggestions and a different set of actions that we can tape. For example, under the Organ Trail staging server, we can say, go to the sites and now it'll take us to the site section of that server. We can also jump straight to useful forms.
Launching Forms Inline1:01
and now it'll take us to the site section of that server. We can also jump straight to useful forms. For example, if we say Oregon Trail staging, and then we say Create database user, it's gonna pop up that form directly where we are. We're not even navigating to a different URL, we're just gonna get that form right there. Or we can say site and then command enter, and then create background process. Again, we can do all that directly in this modal
and then create background process. Again, we can do all that directly in this modal without actually navigating anywhere else. We can also even take some actions directly from the command palette. For example, we can say site and hit, command enter, and then we can say Copy as a sage command. And that will actually put this command right here in our clipboard directly. And if you're in a context and you wanna back outta
Using Page Context1:47
in our clipboard directly. And if you're in a context and you wanna back outta that context, you just hit backspace and you're back in the global context. You can also hit Command K when you're already on a page for a server or a site. And if that is a context, it'll auto-populate that context for you. So for example, if we click in here and then we hit Command K, we're already in
So for example, if we click in here and then we hit Command K, we're already in that context for what we're typing. So we can say sites and it'll take us to sites specifically for that server. Or if we want, we can hit backspace twice. And now we're back out to the global context. Up until now, we've been talking about what you can type, but what about what's there before your type? Well, these are just grouped common actions
Understanding Suggested Actions2:22
but what about what's there before your type? Well, these are just grouped common actions for the context you're in. So for example, when we're on the homepage, we'll get links to big sections like recipes, servers, or usage. We've got some searches here. We've got some creation options here, some management options here and on every single one of these, regardless of the context you're in, you will
and on every single one of these, regardless of the context you're in, you will get these five at the bottom. So Ask Forge is sort of like an AI that has been trained on the documentation of Forge Contact Support actually pops up the real support dialogue from plane copy, debug info, just copies some important information about your user id in case you're talking to Customer Support Manage account takes you directly to the profile page.
case you're talking to Customer Support Manage account takes you directly to the profile page. And then open documentation actually visits the documentation. And just like the things that you could type are different, depending on the context you're in, the things that are suggested to you are also different depending on the context. So if we were to type Command K here, you're gonna notice that we have a different set of options
So if we were to type Command K here, you're gonna notice that we have a different set of options that are appropriate based on the fact that we're currently on a server. And they're, again, groupings of similar actions. A whole bunch of create actions here, a couple refresh, reboot actions here, launch Terminal, copy some things here. They're trying to give us reasonable groupings that you can discover stuff that exists here that you might not even know is an action you can take.
that you can discover stuff that exists here that you might not even know is an action you can take.
