Feature Request: Set cursor focus to label field (instead of value field) when adding new text field

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In the macOS app, when you are editing an item and add a new text field using "+ add another field", the label field defaults to "text" and the cursor focus is set to the value field, like this:

However, 100% of the time when I add a text field, I already know what I want to call the field, and it's never "text" (since that would not be a good way to identify what the text is for). So I will paste in the value, then shift+tab to select the label so I can change it from "text" to my desired label.

So based on the current behavior, the sequence of my thoughts would be "add a new field, what's the value?, what's it called?". But I think this is a backwards way to think. Instead it should be: "add a new field, what's it called?, what's the value?"

My feature request is to either make it so the focus is on the selected "text" string in the label field when adding a new text item, or have a setting allowing the user to opt-in to this behavior.

For users who prefer to type the label first, followed by the value, the current and proposed user flows are as follows:

Current user flow:
1. Click "+ add another field"
2. Press shift+tab to switch to the label field
3. Type the label
4. Press tab to switch back to the value field
5. Type the value

Proposed user flow:
1. Click "+ add another field"
2. The focus is set to the selected default "text" string in the label field, so just type the desired label to replace the default label.
4. Press tab to switch to the value field
5. Type the value

Implementing this feature request as the default behavior would likely require some user interface considerations regarding placeholder text. For instance, when adding a new text field, if the default label were to be selected, perhaps there should be placeholder text which says something like "enter a label for the field", which, if left blank, could default to the original default string of "text". And the placeholder text for the value field could be something like "enter the value for the field".

This may seem like a minor thing, but after having this bother me pretty much every time I add a new text field to an item, I finally got around to posting this feature request.


1Password Version: 8.10.4
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OS Version: macOS 13.3.1
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Comments

  • Hi there @aaaaaa

    Thanks for taking the time to give us all this detail! I'll forward it to the Product team for their consideration. We'll be here if you have any questions or need anything else. :)

    — Grey

    ref: 32608971

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