Create duplicated XML declarations navigation

[Stepa4man]

As a developer, I want to know where are other declarations of the same XML path nodes located and access them quickly.
Area of usage is almost all XML declarations:

• di
• events
• crontab
• system
• config
• db_schema
• acl
• menu
• routes
• extension_attributes
• email_templates
• webapi
• mview
• indexer
• fieldset
• cron_group
• webrestriction
• sections

Would be nice to have something the same as we have in plugins functionality (just some icon with a dropdown list when you click on it):

List of files that contains the same declaration. If you click on it - you go directly to the selected declaration.

Example:
You have a Vendor1_Module/etc/adminhtml/system.xml with declaration section1/group2/field1
and Vendor2_Module/etc/adminhtml/system.xml with the same declaration section1/group2/field1
At both files, you have a "related nodes" icon on the left side of this node. When you click on this icon you see the list of files that also contain this declaration. Clicking to any of them you'll be switched to this file and place in file where this node is declared.

[drpayyne]

Just a thought, wouldn't this visually crowd the sidebar in an XML file with more than a few declarations? Or does it not matter? A system.xml file for example will have a lot of fields and groups and sections, and will hence crowd the sidebar with that many icons.

I love this feature, but just thinking if this would be too overloading on the eyes. :)

[bohdan-harniuk]

Hello, @Stepa4man!

We need to discuss this issue to make a decision if it should be implemented or not.
Do you have some additional ideas how to solve the problem mentioned by the @drpayyne?
As for now, I think that mentioned problem is still crucial and I am inclined not to implement it.

cc. @VitaliyBoyko, @drpayyne, @coderimus, @Iamwade

Regards,

[Stepa4man]

Hello, @Stepa4man!

We need to discuss this issue to make a decision if it should be implemented or not. Do you have some additional ideas how to solve the problem mentioned by the @drpayyne? As for now, I think that mentioned problem is still crucial and I am inclined not to implement it.

cc. @VitaliyBoyko, @drpayyne, @coderimus, @Iamwade

Regards,

I just provided one example. I guess for this example you can just make section/tab/field code clickable instead of making this at the side bar. But even with sidebar approach still didn't get why it should crowd something. You never fave field/section/group/tab on one line, so it's just one icon.

BUt approach with clickable /field/group/section code even cleaner.

[bohdan-harniuk]

Hello, @Stepa4man!

Thank you!
We'll discuss this feature.

Regards,