1PW 8 feature requests: Vault Navigation, Template/editor improvements, Shortcuts integration.
Hi! I'm holding off on fully moving to the new beta for the time being until I decide what to do with my iCloud and Dropbox vaults (on Teams, don't have my own personal/family account, only a standalone perpetual personal license), but there's been a few features I've really wanted over the last couple of years and figured I'd mention them again during this period of considerable changes to the app.
1. Vault Navigation
We provide IT support for several other companies. Within our own 1PW account, we use over 50 different vaults, each dedicated to a specific client we work with. We've also rolled out 1PW to various clients so we're also logged in to the admin accounts for those clients, with their own vault lists. Certain vaults are used daily, others rarely. I think Collections will help a lot with allowing only the most frequently used Vaults to be shown on the sidebar, with the rest more out of the way... However:
I'd love the ability to assign my CMD+0-9 shortcuts to open specific vaults or collections that I specify, or allow me to rearrange the vaults into a non-alphabetic order so that the shortcuts are assigned to the first few. Currently, CMD+1 is All Vaults, subsequent numbers open All Vaults for each individual account, whose order I can't control, so the first few are not even for my own account, and then I eventually have access to my collections. I'd much rather be able to specify CMD+1 as the Private vault within my own Team account, CMD+2-6 for the most-used client vaults within my team, Cmd+0 for All Vaults, and exclude the administration accounts from search altogether.
In addition, I understand that the search allows you to use variables like Tags or Vaults to narrow results - I think this feature will help with getting to the item I need, but the syntax for the search keywords is cumbersome to type, and it would help a lot if it were as short and simple as possible. For example, instead of using =tag:Starter Kit or =vault:Acme, I'd recommend also allowing for something like a:My Company t::Starter Kit v::Acme.
2. Templates
Custom Templates have been in "Beta" for years, and there haven't been any improvements to them since release from what I can tell. In our workflow, we extensively use a copy of the "Membership" template (as it was just about the only one that didn't contain a bunch of uneditable fields that we wouldn't be using) to store all the credentials that we manage for an individual end-user, rather than have a dozen "login" items per user in a Client's vault (John's O365, John's Webmail, John's GSuite, etc). The following improvements would be very much appreciated:
Allow us to create our own templates from scratch, specifying whatever sections and fields we want, rather than having to copy an existing item type that only approximates our use case.
Let us upload our own icon for the template, like we can with Vaults
Right now, if a template is being created, once a section or field has been added there's no way to rearrange them to change their order. If I realize I forgot to add a certain section to the beginning of the template, I have no choice but to delete every other field and section after place I want to add a new section to. Please improve the editor so fields and sections can be added anywhere.
Let us add our own selection drop-down menu fields like you have in various templates
Finally, please allow us to designate sections within our templates to server as login fields, that can be offered as auto-fill suggestions. If I have a section in an item that includes a username field, a password field, and a website, 1PW should be smart enough to realize this is a login, even if it's in a Membership template, or an Email Account template, or a Server template. And each of these "loginnable" sections should be accessible from the browser.
3. Misc.
Agilebits has historically been very enthusiastic each WWDC to quickly work on implementing new APIs into 1PW, such as TouchID, Safari Autofill, and now Safari Extensions. I worry that with the move to a cross-platform solution this type of innovation may be less common, but crossing my fingers that this isn't the case, and I even remain hopeful that if the Mac Catalyst frameworks become more robust, that one day we might once again see 1PW feel like a native Mac app, even if it's just built on top of the iOS app.
Aside from that possibility, something that has been sorely missed on Apple platforms (iOS and soon Mac as well) is support for Shortcuts. As it is, Shortcuts has so much potential for quickly interacting with APIs, websites and apps, yet it doesn't have any method whatsoever for securely storing credentials. It would be so fantastic for native 1PW Shortcut actions to allow us to specify an item from 1PW ahead of time, and then when the shortcut is ran, FaceID would authenticate you, retrieve that item from 1PW and output it so that it can be used within the workflow. It's such a valuable use in a section of iOS that currently is so lacking security wise that I'm amazed it still isn't available.
I'm excited to see what's around the corner once early access for iOS is released, and I really hope the iPad app is given plenty of love. With a Magic Keyboard/trackpad, I use my iPad Pro now more than my Mac, and I feel there's plenty of things that could be refined to better take advantage of the iPad's capabilities in the 1PW app, such as keyboard shortcuts for navigating vaults.
Thank you for reading through all this!
-Ian
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Hi @imaldonado,
Wow, thanks for providing so much feedback! We really appreciate it.
I'm glad you're digging Vault Collections. You've hit on why we liked the idea so much: The ability to have multiple contexts where different groups of vaults might be useful. It's like All Vaults from 1Password 7 taken to the next level.
At this point we've done and re-done our vault sorting so many times that custom-ordering is probably not in our immediate future, however I love the idea of being able to customize Command-[0-9] shortcuts for your Accounts, Vault Collections, and Vaults. I'm going to file that issue because, frankly, that's something that I want.
I appreciate your feelings about the search being somewhat verbose. At this point I'd ask for your patience because what you see now is a stepping-stone to where we hope to land.
Your feedback on Custom Templates is really good and I will pass it on to the 1Password.com service team who handles the custom icon features (since those templates span all our products). I don't think we've every been 100% happy with the way custom templates work so your feedback won't come as a surprise but it's greatly appreciated; it always helps to know how users want to use something.
Finally, as someone who worked on integrating Password AutoFill into 1Password for iOS when it debuted in iOS 12, I can tell you that one of our favourite things is to leverage new OS features when building our apps. The hope is that our new shared-core architecture will free up our platforms teams to spend even more time leveraging OS features now that each team doesn't have to roll their own data containers, syncing logic, etc. Hopefully you'll continue to be as excited about WWDC as we are.
I'll file your interest in Shortcuts. To be honest I'm not sure what capabilities exist within the Shortcut APIs for passing secrets, but if you give me a few of your intended use-cases we'll be able to file Feedback with Apple for any APIs that might be missing. Let me know so we can dig in for you.
Great to hear that you're enjoying the iPad so much. We'll do our best to make it sing, but I hope you'll let us know if we ever miss the mark.
Thanks again for your very thorough feedback. We really really appreciate it. Keep it coming!
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I agree on all comments in section 2, to make 1Password for Business more usable with custom templates!
- Templates
Custom Templates have been in "Beta" for years, and there haven't been any improvements to them since release from what I can tell. In our workflow, we extensively use a copy of the "Membership" template (as it was just about the only one that didn't contain a bunch of uneditable fields that we wouldn't be using) to store all the credentials that we manage for an individual end-user, rather than have a dozen "login" items per user in a Client's vault (John's O365, John's Webmail, John's GSuite, etc). The following improvements would be very much appreciated:
Allow us to create our own templates from scratch, specifying whatever sections and fields we want, rather than having to copy an existing item type that only approximates our use case.
Let us upload our own icon for the template, like we can with Vaults
Right now, if a template is being created, once a section or field has been added there's no way to rearrange them to change their order. If I realize I forgot to add a certain section to the beginning of the template, I have no choice but to delete every other field and section after place I want to add a new section to. Please improve the editor so fields and sections can be added anywhere.
Let us add our own selection drop-down menu fields like you have in various templates
Finally, please allow us to designate sections within our templates to server as login fields, that can be offered as auto-fill suggestions. If I have a section in an item that includes a username field, a password field, and a website, 1PW should be smart enough to realize this is a login, even if it's in a Membership template, or an Email Account template, or a Server template. And each of these "loginnable" sections should be accessible from the browser.
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Just a side note here on using hotkeys for selecting Vaults/Collections: was there a reason this functionality was completely removed in the browser extension? It's way more useful to have a hotkey switcher there (where you're seeing a much smaller interface) than in the main app.
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Thanks @JohannesKnust, I appreciate the feedback! I've added it to the internal tracking issue. 😊
@Endareth I'm not sure when this changed, but I definitely agree that this would be a handy option to have in the extension, so I've filed an internal issue to explore bringing this functionality to 1Password in your browser. 😄
ref: dev/b5/b5#14221
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It's a bit more than just "handy" for me, I have to say. With that tiny interface, having to manually scroll through dozens and dozens of items to try and find which is the correct login to use is incredibly painful (plus it's displaying less information to allow for more easily distinguishing between accounts). Are we able to keep using the old browser plugin with 1P8?
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Okay, so can I make that an official feature request please? Don't like the idea of having to keep going back to the main app just to log into websites—that was supposed to be the whole point of browser integration.
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Has there been any movement on templates? Specifically this part:
"Finally, please allow us to designate sections within our templates to server as login fields, that can be offered as auto-fill suggestions. If I have a section in an item that includes a username field, a password field, and a website, 1PW should be smart enough to realize this is a login, even if it's in a Membership template, or an Email Account template, or a Server template. And each of these "loginnable" sections should be accessible from the browser."
This is a feature our whole team would love to see.
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