Ideas for Arc XP

Browser overlay to view details on content blocks.

I would love to have some sort of official browser extension that will allow a user (maybe this functionality can be limited by roles and squads?) to hover over a content block and view details about that block. Maybe an image/video file name or details about power ups.

  • Corey Holmes
  • Mar 25 2025
  • Future consideration
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    Sara Carothers commented
    11 Jul 19:53

    Thanks for the additional feedback Corey. I want to make sure you're aware, we do have a Chrome extension today that does some of this type of functionality: https://docs.arcxp.com/en/products/general/arc-xp-browser-extension-user-guide.html For example, if you visit an article published on your website and open the Chrome extension, it will give you a button where you can click to open that story in Composer. It also has some developer-focused debugging tools. If I'm understanding correctly, you're wanting to find this type of information from your user-facing website, not from within Arc tools (like PageBuilder) - is that correct?

    Let me know if you're able to try out that Chrome extension and it provides some of what you're looking for, or if you have specific ideas of capabilities to add to it!

  • Corey Holmes commented
    31 May 21:15

    Thanks for the response. I think one of the very basic uses I can see for this is grabbing the title or filename of an image so I can look for it in Photo Center. A bell and/or whistle for such a tool would be a button popup saying "Open in Photo Center" which would do just that. It saves clicks, weird searches queries in photo center, etc.

    The tool could also analyze pages and check the status of links on a page -- visually indicate the status of links within the content block being hovered (e.g., green for valid, yellow for redirect, red for 404). Show the target URL.

    Maybe it could determine the workflow status and print that out somewhere?

    Essentially, whatever pertinent information one might have to go backend for is up for grabs.

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    Sara Carothers commented
    30 May 15:14

    Thanks for this idea Corey, it's very interesting! Could you share some more details about what kind of information you're seeking, and why? What kinds of tasks are you trying to accomplish where a browser extension like this would be helpful?