Make managing Structures less of a drag – Filtered drag, Continuous drag, Multiple drag

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Product.Structure.-.Commerce.mp4

Managing items in a large structure, Entries or Commerce Products, is a bit of drag and doesn't perform as expected. It's a great feature but could be a lot easier to manage.

1. Filtered drag

If you filter the items and drag to change the order, moving an item to the top within the filtered view for example places it at the absolute top in the global order when the filter is removed.

The use case is for example products related to entries (collections) where you want to order them within that filtered view.

The expectation is to update the order within the filtered view, while respecting the global order.

2. Continuous drag

If you have more items than the viewport height, if you drag up you can only go as high as the viewport, it doesn't continuously drag to the very top.

While you can do some finger gymnastics to click with one finger and scroll the page behind with a second finger it's not intuitive.

The expectation would be to drag to the top of the viewport and continue, with the page scrolling down behind (see Chrome Bookmark Manager as a reference).

3. Multiple drag

You often want to select multiple items and drag to a new order, but it only moves the first item in the selection.

The expectation would be that multiple items move to the new position.

Really hope this can be achieved, and would particularly help managing large commerce sites.

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Control.Panel.Nav.-.Structure.mp4

Verbb's Control Panel Nav uses a very quick technique for continuous drag as a reference.