Keyboard shortcut to logout of Employee Portal

[Joel Bowles]

Does there exist or is there a way to setup, a keyboard shortcut to logout of the Employee Portal?

Thanks

[Sandeep Rajput]

@Joel Bowles ServiceNow does not provide a native keyboard shortcut to log out of the Employee Portal.

[Robert H · Accepted solution]

Hello @Joel Bowles ,

You can do this as follows:

1) Create a UI Script

Name: EC Logout keyboard shortcut

UI Type: All

Script: paste the following code, and adjust the condition for the desired key combination as needed

document.addEventListener('keydown', e => {
    // check for key combination ALT + SHIFT + L
    if (e.code === 'KeyL' && e.altKey && e.shiftKey) {
        window.location.href = '/logout.do?sysparm_goto_url=/esc';
    }
});

2) In the Theme record for Employee Center ("EC Theme" by default), create a new JS Include that refers to the above UI Script

If you now open Employee Center and press ALT + SHIFT + L you will be logged out of ServiceNow.

Regards,

Robert

[Joel Bowles]

Thanks Robert!  For whatever reason that script didn't seem to work, but after modifying it slightly this worked:

(function() {

    document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {

        if (e.altKey && e.shiftKey && e.code === 'KeyL') {

            window.location.href = '/logout.do';

        }

    });

})();

[Robert H]

Hello @Joel Bowles ,

Thank you for the feedback. I did some reading and found that the "keyCode" property that I used in my code is marked as obsolete, so maybe that's the reason why it did not work for you. I have updated the code in my earlier response to use the "code" property instead, just like you did.

Regards,

Robert