Customization of Connection Drop Down/View in SQL Developer

Question

I know this may not be that import feature that i think SQL Developer should have but will be very helpful.
In my scenario there are many databases and schemas exists in Development/Staging/Production environments, there is a possibility when selecting a connection from drop down some other connection is selected, its human error. What if there is Group by option in the drop down so that we can customize or group lower environment connections in one place and others in different group, even color coding of critical connections settings could be much helpful.
So in short i think it would be great if the following feature is included in next release of SQL Developer
- Connections to display as in groups
- Each group and connection of that group can be color coded(say production connections are displayed in Red color, Testing/Staging are displayed in Yellow, Development in Blue etc)

Answer 1

JeffSmithSQLDevPM wrote:
I think the poster means this actually
You'll need to be more specific. The developer comment for the feature request you linked says this:
Folders in the navigator are currently not persisted. Implementing this is not trivial.
I have created 'prod' and 'test' folders and put connections in each of them in 3.0.02 Build MAIN-02.37 and the folders and connections persist just fine.
So the connections themselves can certainly be 'grouped' which is what OP specifically asked about.
What if there is Group by option in the drop down so that we can customize or group lower environment connections in one place and others in different group, even color coding of critical connections settings could be much helpful.
Everything else in the tree (e.g. schemas) is specific to a connection which can be specific to a user created folder such as 'prod' or 'test'.
So if OP means something else they will need to clarify what they really mean and provide an example.