UI option to load sample process

[MarkSiedle]

Background

In response to customer feedback asking for an option to see an example deployment process/steps, and following our 80/20 rule, we want to create an option to do just that, without being too intrusive.

This should also be a useful time-saver for both customers and developers, I.e. when you're just needing to create a valid process quickly to test a deployment/runbook's task execution (this feature should save you a LOT of clicks).

Simple Example

Here we show two server-side script steps (since we don't want to dive into the complexity of dealing with deployment targets / roles) and this shows how you can write "Hello world" using PowerShell and C# in a way that's useful for beginners to explore. It shows that you can:

• run multiple steps in parallel
• compare how you'd write hello world in different languages
• write comments and have markdown links show up in your logs

Overflow option only

This feature should be accessible from the overflow menu, and is only visible when your process has no steps.

We will not include an additional link to this feature from the onboarding components themselves, because this would add noise / take away from the onboarding journey that guides you through the step-editing process. This is a delicate balance and valuable learning opportunity for new users that we don't want to disrupt. We can monitor this over time and decide if the value of this feature outweighs the risk to the onboarding process :)

Longer Term

We'd like to see this PR be the beginnings of something larger in the future, with options to load different useful samples, but this feels like a simple way to start the conversation and see if we find this useful with minimal investment/risk.

Results

[octoreleasebot]

Release Note: UI option to load a sample process for new projects

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