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title: Review of the Teleport Module
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date: 2010-07-12
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excerpt: My review of Drupal’s Teleport module.
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tags:
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- drupal-planet
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- drupal-6
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- drupal-modules
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- teleport
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---
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As a heavily-reliant
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[Quicksilver](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver_%28software%29) user on
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my MacBook Pro, I was glad when I found the
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[Teleport](http://drupal.org/project/teleport) module for
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[Drupal](http://drupal.org) _(due to Elliott Rothman's
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[tweet](http://twitter.com/elliotttt/status/18044234238))_.
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When you press a configurable hot-key, a jQuery dialog box appears where you can
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search for nodes by title or path, or directly enter the path that you want to
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navigate to. This will greatly reduce the number of clicks that I need to
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perform to get to my desired page - even compared to the
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[Admin](http://drupal.org/project/admin) and
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[Administration Menu](http://drupal.org/project/admin_menu) modules.
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Although it's not a new module (the first commits were 2 years ago), I hope that
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they are still planning on achieving the list of future directions listed on
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their Drupal.org project page:
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- Make interface act more like Quicksilver (i.e. you should only have to press
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Enter once to launch)
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- 'Actions' like Quicksilver: if you select a node, a second input should appear
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with options to go to the View page, Edit page, (un)publish, etc. Same with
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users.
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- Hook into more non-node content, like taxonomy terms and functions in the API
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module.
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Personally, this will make navigation around both the front-end and
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administration area of my Drupal sites so much easier.
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