Configure available keyboard shortcuts

  • Release version: Xanadu
  • Updated August 1, 2024
  • 1 minute to read

    • Administrators can configure which keyboard shortcuts are available to users.

    Before you begin

    Role required: admin

    About this task

    For a list of available keyboard shortcuts, see Core UI keyboard shortcuts. You can enable or disable keyboard shortcuts universally by searching for the glide.ui.keyboard.shorcuts.enabled user preference. Then select the System checkbox and set the value to False.

    You can also use the user preferences to determine which keyboard shortcuts are available to users and what the key combinations are.

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to All > User Administration > User Preferences.
    2. From the search bar, select Name.
    3. Type *keyboard to do a contains search for all user preferences containing keyboard in the name.
    4. To allow users to use keyboard shortcuts while typing in a field, set the value for the glide.ui.keyboard.shortcuts.allow_in_input_fields user preference to true.
    5. Disable any of the following keyboard shortcuts by changing the value to False.
      Table 1. Keyboard shortcuts
      User preference Description Keyboard shortcut
      glide.ui.keyboard.shortcuts.main_frame Move keyboard focus to the main content on the page. ctrl+alt+p
      glide.ui.keyboard.shortcuts.global_search Move keyboard focus to the global search bar in the banner frame.
      glide.ui.keyboard.shortcuts.impersonator Open the impersonator window.
      glide.ui.keyboard.shortcuts.navigator_filter Move keyboard focus to the filter in the application navigator.
      glide.ui.keyboard.shortcuts.navigator_toggle Toggle the application navigator open or closed.
    6. Use the value for any user preference that ends with key_combo to change the key combination for that particular keyboard shortcut.