Keyboard Shortcuts
This section describes all the keyboard shortcuts that are available to use in Stroom. Some shortcuts apply everywhere and some are specific to the screen that you are in or the user interface component that has focus.
General Shortcuts
- Cancel - Esc - Closes/cancels an open popup or dialog discarding any changes. Equivalent to clicking on a dialog.
- Select / toggle - Space ␣ - Selects a row/item in a table, list, selection box or tab bar. Toggles a focused checkbox. Selects a radio button.
- Execute - Enter ↵ - Selects a row/item in a table, list, selection box or tab bar. Opens a Document/Date picker dialog on a Document/Date field.
- OK - Ctrl ^ + Enter ↵ . Equivalent to clicking on a dialog, closes the dialog accepting any changes.
- Context Menu - Menu ☰ - Shows the context menu for the selected item, e.g. the selected item in the explorer tree.
- Select all - Ctrl ^ + a .
- Save - Ctrl ^ + s - Save the current tab.
- Save all - Ctrl ^ + Shift ⇧ + s - Saves all open and un-saved tabs.
- Close - Alt + w - Close the current tab.
- Close all - Shift ⇧ + Alt + w - Closes all open tabs.
Navigation
Navigating within lists, selection boxes or tab bars you can use the cursor keys, hjkl or wasd to move between items.
- Up - ⬆ or k or w
- Down - ⬇ or j or s
- Left - ⬅ or h or a
- Right - ➡ or l or d
You can also move up or down by page using:
- Page Up - PageUp
- Page Down - PageDown
- Home / Start - Home
- End - End
Finding Things
- Find documents by name - Shift ⇧ + Alt + f or Shift ⇧ , Shift ⇧ - Find documents by name, type, UUID .
- Find in content - Ctrl ^ + Shift ⇧ + f - Find documents whose content contains the search term. This is the same as clicking the icon on the explorer tree.
- Recent items - Ctrl ^ + e - Find a document in a list of the most recently opened items.
- Locate document - Alt + l - Locate the currently open document in the explorer tree. This is the same as clicking the icon on the explorer tree.
- Help - F1 - Show the help popup for the currently focused screen control, e.g. a text box. This shortcut will only work if there is a help next to the control.
Pipeline Stepping
The following shortcuts are available when stepping a pipeline.
- Step refresh - Ctrl ^ + Enter ↵ - Refresh the current step. This is the same as clicking .
Query
The following shortcuts are available when editing a .
- Execute query - Ctrl ^ + Enter ↵ - Execute the current query. This is the same as clicking .
Text Editor
The following common shortcuts are available when editing text editing text in the Ace text editor that is used on many screens in Stroom, e.g. when editing a Pipeline or Query.
- Undo - Ctrl ^ + z - Undo last action.
- Redo - Ctrl ^ + Shift ⇧ + z - Redo previously undone action.
- Toggle comment - Ctrl ^ + / - Toggle commenting of current line/selection. Applies when editing XML, XSLT or Javascript.
- Move line - Alt + ⬆ & Alt + ⬇ - Move line/selection up/down respectively
- Delete line - Ctrl ^ + d - Delete the current line.
- Find - Ctrl ^ + f - Open find dialog.
- Find/replace - Ctrl ^ + h - Open find/replace dialog.
- Find next match - Ctrl ^ + k - Find next match.
- Find previous match - Ctrl ^ + Shift ⇧ + k - Find previous match.
- Indent selection - Tab ↹ - Indent the selected text.
- Outdent selection - Shift ⇧ + Tab ↹ - Un-indent the selected text.
- Upper-case - Ctrl ^ + u - Make the selected text upper-case.
- Open Completion list - Ctrl ^ + Space ␣ - Open the code completion list to show suggestions based on the current word. See Auto-Completion.
- Trigger snippet - Tab ↹ - Trigger the insertion of a snippet for the currently entered snippet trigger text. See Tab Triggers.
See Default keyboard shortcuts for more.