Contextual actions to show metadata in Web Setup and Visualforce preview

[Scott Wells]

The first part is based on feedback from Mario Burdman:

"A nice to have and I can guess is an easy one is right click -> 'Show in Salesforce Web'."

Additionally I've been wanting to have a quick way to preview/render/refresh the current Visualforce page (and once supported, Lightning app) in the browser from the context menu and/or key binding.

[Jonathan Toland]

I agree a preview tab at the bottom (or split) would be preferable.

[Scott Wells]

It's unlikely I'd have a preview tab with an actual embedded browser just because of the technical issues (embedding a native browser in a Java Swing app, much less supporting all of the various browsers people would want to use to preview). More likely I'd take the same approach that JetBrains takes when editing Web-oriented content:

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/viewing-pages-with-web-contents.html

[Jonathan Toland]

I forgot they don't do that. Been using Atom lately ;) In lieu of that you could also navigate (authenticated) from metadata to objects, tabs, etc. You'd need to know whether Lightning is enable to format URLs.

[Scott Wells]

Partially delivered in 1.7.0.0. You're now able to preview Visualforce pages and Lightning apps in the browser using Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+Opt+Shift+P (Mac).

[Scott Wells]

Issue #213 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.

[Scott Wells]

Issue tracker grooming. This was completely delivered quite a bit back.