Thing Add: Navigate to the new Thing once added

[rkoshak]

The problem

When creating an in individual Thing manually one usually wants to immediately start linking its Channels to Items. After adding a new Thing in this way MainUI returns to the list of all Things forcing the user to search for or scroll down to find the newly created Thing.

Your suggestion

Instead of returning to the list of all Things, open the newly created Thing's page.

Alternatively, return to the all Things page and put the newly created Thing(s) at the top of the list or with a search term that only shows the newly created Things. This would be useful for cases where more than one Thing was created by accepting them from the Inbox. But I think this might be a little more challenging to implement well.

Your environment

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  - binding-zigbee
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  - misc-openhabcloud
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  - transformation-basicprofiles
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  - ui-basic
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clientInfo:
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timestamp: 2025-01-13T16:52:22.097Z

Additional information

[jimtng]

I've created #3014 to do just the Thing-Add.

To do a similar thing for the inbox -> add will be more complex, and since it's not the same thing anyway, I'll do it in a different PR and will link it to this issue as well.

[jimtng]

return to the all Things page and put the newly created Thing(s) at the top of the list or with a search term that only shows the newly created Things. This would be useful for cases where more than one Thing was created by accepting them from the Inbox.

See #3020