Allow canvas navigation via a "Hand Tool," like Photoshop, instead of endless mouse wheel scrolling

[ChadM]

Posting on behalf of Door To Door Organics:

Canvases can get pretty huge and it's an unintuitive pain to have to scroll and shift+scroll across a large canvas, and an even bigger pain to rely on the sliders at the edges of the canvas. It would be REALLY nice if we could navigate the canvas by dragging the canvas around, much like a touch interface, in the same way that Photoshop's "Hand Tool" works. 
 
As an added plus, the same hotkey that Photoshop uses (the spacebar) should also be usable in Designer, since, I'm pretty sure it's not used for anything else at the moment, as a hotkey. The functionality would look like this: hold down the spacebar (which changes the mouse cursor to a hand tool) and then, while the space bar is still held down, you'd be able to "grab" the canvas and drag it around in your view port in order to traverse it in a much more intuitive way. Bonus points if you could manage to implement some inertial scrolling with this as well. 😃

[erik]

Oh man, this would be so fantastic!

[AdamR_AYX]

If you hold down the scroll wheel on the canvas then you can drag it around by moving the mouse

Cheers
Adam

[ARich]

This functionality will be part of the 10.1 release!

[GeoffJ]

In Alteryx Analytics 10.1 you can now hold Spacebar to enter "panning mode" and then use your left mouse button to pan around the canvas.

Read about this and a number of other enhancements to Canvas Navigation at the Engine Works Blog.

[BCarley]

@Geoffj

Am I right in thinking that we have lost the ALT + Left Click to pan? Are there known issues with the space bar panning mode? I don't seem to be able to actually pan once the symbol comes up