MySQL Bugs: #43013: "Go to" option in Catalog window dropdown menu

Bug #43013	"Go to" option in Catalog window dropdown menu
Submitted:	19 Feb 2009 11:12	Modified:	20 Oct 2009 11:28
Reporter:	Michael Skulsky	Email Updates:
Status:	Won't fix	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	5.0.29 OSS	OS:	Windows
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	CHECKED

Description:
It would be very convenient to have a "navigate to object" capability from Catalog window. I have a lot of tables in my schema and I often use catalog window to remind myself of precise table name, but there is no way to go to this table on the canvas other than through Find window. 

How to repeat:
NA (feature request)

Suggested fix:
Add a "Go to" or "Navigate to" option to the dropdown menu in Catalog window, that would bring selected table in view on the canvas.

While this is a reasonable feature request for the catalog pane, the "Layers" pane does have a functionality like that. so as a a workaround you can switch to the layers pane and double-click the object you want to look at on canvas and it should be panned into the view.

I agree, but the Layers window shows FKs in addition to tables, which makes it too cluttered (as I said there are a lot of tables, and obviously there are more FKs than tables). I don't know why FKs should be there, maybe there is a reason, like some special case when an FK does not belong to the same layer as its table... but anyway to me they're only in the way.

Many thanks for writing a feature request.

After long discussion we decided that we won't change this behaviour in foreseeable future.

Thank you for your interests in MySQL Workbench.

Excuse me - could you precise which behaviour you are unwilling to change? Do you mean to say that there is any good reason why Catalog window should remain dumb (i.e. unable to bring selected table in view)? To me this is the only way one actually could use a catalog; in the current form it can just as well be removed.