Enable pinning objects to a user's home page

[jeremystretch]

NetBox version

v3.1.4

Feature type

New functionality

Proposed functionality

Include a "pin to homepage" button on the view for (almost?) every object. When clicked, a new record will be created associating the object with the current user as a "pinned" or "favorite" object. The NetBox home page will be extended to display a list of all such objects for the current user. Objects can be "unpinned" from this list as needed.

This idea was originally proposed by @bogdancordos in #8235.

Use case

This allows a user to compile a list of commonly-viewed objects for near- or long-term use.

It's also somewhat related to #7855, which proposes displaying a history of recently viewed objects.

Database changes

I imagine the introduction of a simple new model within the users app (e.g. UserFavorite) mapping the user object to the "pinned" object via a generic foreign key. We would probably want to track creation date, and possibly assign a numeric weight to aid in reordering objects, depending on how much functionality is needed.

External dependencies

No response

[hagbarddenstore]

It would be really nice if this feature also includes models defined in plugins.

One small option that would be nice to add to this (although I understand if it doesn't fit the spirit of this): It would be nice to be able to click on a "favorite" on the homepage (or a button on that favorite) and jump directly to the DNS name/IP of that object if there is one. This would make it easy to quickly jump to those items. You would have to assume the protocol, but http/https is probably safe coming from the web.

[bogdancordos]

One small option that would be nice to add to this (although I understand if it doesn't fit the spirit of this): It would be nice to be able to click on a "favorite" on the homepage (or a button on that favorite) and jump directly to the DNS name/IP of that object if there is one. This would make it easy to quickly jump to those items. You would have to assume the protocol, but http/https is probably safe coming from the web.

I guess you can create a custom link for DCIM > device based on the object name or IP. You can even create a link for each protocol you want to connect to those objects PROT://{{ obj.name }} .

[jeremystretch]

You can even create a link for each protocol you want to connect to those objects PROT://{{ obj.name }} .

Just a note: These links will depend on browser support. So for example if you made an ssh:// link, clicking it wouldn't do anything unless you had something installed or configured in your browser to open an SSH client for it.

One small option that would be nice to add to this (although I understand if it doesn't fit the spirit of this): It would be nice to be able to click on a "favorite" on the homepage (or a button on that favorite) and jump directly to the DNS name/IP of that object if there is one. This would make it easy to quickly jump to those items. You would have to assume the protocol, but http/https is probably safe coming from the web.

I guess you can create a custom link for DCIM > device based on the object name or IP. You can even create a link for each protocol you want to connect to those objects PROT://{{ obj.name }} .

Thats a good idea I haven't thought of that. However I guess we'd want those custom links to someone be surfaced on the favorite on homepage.

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