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Hotkey for Global Search

Rapid Mouseless Development Step forward!  We're so close -

 

Please:

 

1.  Add a hotkey to bring the cursor to Global Search and/or engage global search whenever you start typing in a contextless location (whitespace)

2.  Enable arrow key navigation of the elements of global search

3.  Hitting Enter key from global search would insert the selected tool after the last touched tool on a workflow or in the workflow at a logical point (bottom rightmost bound etc), focus would not be transferred to the inserted tool, but should either remain context-less or stay in Global search

4.  Hitting the TAB key from global search would insert the selected tool, just like Enter but take you to the first element of the inserted tool's configuration.

 

Take your development speed to new levels by reducing the keyboard to mouse to keyboard back and forth.

 

 

 

 

6 Comments
MGA
7 - Meteor

Love the idea!

 

Hot keys would be perfect ... thanks for posting

Community_Admin
Alteryx
Alteryx
Status changed to: Inactive
 
Community_Admin
Alteryx
Alteryx

The status of this idea has been changed to 'Inactive'. This status indicates that:

 

1. The idea has not had activity in the form of likes or comments in over a year.

2. The idea has not reached ten likes.

3. The idea is still in the 'New Idea' status. 

 

However, this doesn't mean your idea won't be implemented! The Community can still like and comment on this idea. With enough renewed interest, this idea can be brought back into the 'New Idea' status. 

 

Thank you for contributing to the Alteryx Community and the Alteryx Product Idea Boards!

NicoleJ
Alteryx
Alteryx
Status changed to: Coming Soon

Stay tuned, fun keyboard shortcut updates coming soon! :)

NicoleJ
Alteryx
Alteryx

Actually, small update... the shortcut for Global Search already exists (Ctrl + Shift + F... you can see our list of current shortcuts here! https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/get-started/shortcuts-in-alteryx-designer.html )
BUT we are making additional improvements for keyboard navigation in the Global Search window, coming soon... will update here when implemented! :) 

NicoleJ
Alteryx
Alteryx
Status changed to: Implemented

Check out all the new Keyboard Shortcuts and other keyboard accessibility improvements added in the 24.2 release! You can also check out ALL our great keyboard shortcut options in this help page. Enjoy!