more keyboard shortcuts

Randy, your question got me wondering. I remember seeing some shortcuts in the demo of the "new" rich text editor (that came with 2014.2) and seeing more shortcuts than I realized possible. As it turns out one of the examples you provided, #3, is possible (see the user guide). As we work on updating the UI (which for on-premises customers begins with 2015.1 and the List View), it seems like more should be possible. Our next hosted release should have contextual URLS (e.g. URLs to individual items, filters, releases, etc., and a working back button!). With those improvements it might open some other doors...

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Keyboard Shortcuts.

As a software engineer by nature, I find it very painful to have to take my hands off of the keyboard in order to navigate through Jama.  Since Jama opens tabs within its own environment I can't utilize Chrome to navigate through Jama like I would in other web apps (e.g. in JIRA, I open multiple issues in different tabs and rely on Chrome to switch between them).  

I searched the help pages and didn't find much implemented on keyboard shortcuts.  For example, is there a way to switch between tabs without using the mouse (e.g. in chrome you can switch between tabs using ctrl + t)?

Other items I think would benefit from shortcuts:

• Search (move the cursor to the search box)
• Save and Close
• Find Me (pull up an item's location in the tree view)
• Navigation in general in the tree view (expand, open item)
• A way to click on an item to open a new tab without changing the tab you're presently on
• Create/Delete an item

Is there any plan to put these kinds of keyboard shortcuts, or alternative ways of navigating Jama in the program roadmap?

Thanks for the feedback.  I assume what you mean by 'single item view' is that I can open an item type in a separate tab and Jama will maintain the context of what I'm looking at?  If that's the case, I think it takes care of some of my concerns related to tabs by relying on the browser to provide the keyboard shortcut for me.

I really hate to jump on the band wagon but 5 years ago when I first started learning and using Jama/Contour in those days, I was slightly amazed that there were no keyboard short-cuts, customizable keys, and also recordable macros. Perhaps I'll just be happy with CTRL-C, CTRL-V (simple copy and past as @Grant has suggested), and my favorite CTRL-Z (for un-do :-) swoo

Kristina, thanks for your reply. By th way Günther does a lot of pipedreaming. Lol

@Kristina, listen to Grant. I can sniff out a great and experienced Jama super user and org admin a mile away. I have a good nose for that. By the way this is a pictorial representation of how my older brother beats me to the Game of Thrones, I wanted to do a Ctrl-x and Ctrl-v with Kobi. These are frequently used keyboard shortcut because he takes my day bed, night bed, and food bowls frequently. Lol. Sincerely, Günther.

@Grant, disclaimer: I do not condone or promote alcohol consumption either at a workplace or on a public forum. Having said that, beer may be nice, but those who are involved with Jama org administration might consider something stronger. My wife happens to think that I make a killer Mai-tai. This is a partial ingredient list. Lol. I do not know why the above picture is posted upside down. I tried twice. I have not been drinking. I am at Pacific US. I have not even had coffee yet. Lol.

I'm reviewing our "request list" and tagging on to this topic as Keyboard Shortcuts being a want I thought we'd already tagged it, may have been in the old forum!

Thanks!

Is there an all inclusive list of what keyboard shortcuts are currently supported?  I know a few are, but having difficulty finding a list.

Thanks!

Yes, definitely more keyboard shortcuts. 

When in review center, "j" and "k" should go forward and backwards through items like they work in email clients and RSS readers. Some other key combination should be be mapped to clicking review, or if an approver to approve and disapprove. Perhaps "e" to jump straight into leaving a comment. 

J/K should also enable you to walk through the items in a folder. I want to be able to click into a requirement from a folder and then navigate all items in the folder with just keyboard shortcuts. 

Also "e" for edit on any screen where I have to go into an editing mode. and ?-R (or control if you use windows) to leave comments.

As someone whose first computers were DOS, I use keyboard shortcuts whenever possible. Rich text is great and it's helpful that some keyboard shortcuts exist there, but having them outside of that editor would be great. When I use the rich text editor, all my non-custom reports, i.e., the report of test results, have HTML coding in them in spite of our admin having made sure that all the settings are correct. I avoid the rich text editor as much as possible as it requires me to either go into each test case with the regular Edit option OR spend considerable time cleaning up the reports.