Studio Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts

Every shortcut Studio has, grouped by where it works. Ctrl/Cmd means Cmd on macOS and Ctrl elsewhere. Tooltips name the keys of your keyboard: Undo (Ctrl+Z) and Redo (Ctrl+Shift+Z) on Windows, Linux and Android, Undo (⌘Z) and Redo (⇧⌘Z) on a Mac, iPad or iPhone.

Note. Ctrl/Cmd + S saves only in the Builder and on a flow's canvas. On other screens it does nothing in Studio, and your browser's own "Save page" dialog appears instead. Studio has no command palette.

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Everywhere

Keys	Action
Tab (first press on a page)	shows Skip to content; press Enter to jump past the topbar and tabs to the screen itself
Tab / Shift + Tab	move between controls
Enter or Space	activate a focused row or card that opens something (a Save in History, a list row)
Esc	close the open menu or popover: the account menu, the organization/project switcher, More menus, a row's ⋮ menu, the Builder's + Question, Library, + Page and Add script menus, the Data export menu; the focus goes back to the button that opened it
↑ / ↓, Home / End in an open menu	move through its items (the menu takes the focus when it opens): the account menu, the organization/project switcher, a row's ⋮ menu, the Builder's + Question, Library, + Page and Add script menus, the Data export menu
Tab in an open menu	close the menu and move on to the next control; in a toolbar's More menu (the Builder, Flows and a flow, the codeframe editor, History, Distribute), Tab first moves through its items, and leaving it closes it
← / →, Home / End on a focused tab	move between the tabs of Organization settings, Profile settings, Project settings, a Save in History and the codeframe editor (Answers, Suggested words, Test a phrase), without opening one
Enter or Space on a focused tab	open that tab (a settings tab with unsaved changes asks Discard unsaved changes? first); Tab then moves into the tab's content

Messages at the foot of the screen are read out by a screen reader as they appear. A confirmation goes after a few seconds; an error stays until you dismiss it with its ✕ (Dismiss), or until the next message takes its place, never sooner than you can read it. A message that tells you what to do first, such as "Save first — a preview is built from a Save", is read out without interrupting and goes by itself once you have had time to read it; a longer one stays longer. While the pointer rests on a message, or the focus is on its Dismiss button, it stays where it is.

Dialogs

Keys	Action
Esc	close the dialog without doing anything; clicking outside it does the same; either way the focus goes back to what opened it (from a tab bar, to the tab that is open)
Tab / Shift + Tab	move between the dialog's controls; focus stays inside the dialog and wraps around. A group of radio buttons, such as Start from in New project, is one stop: the arrow keys choose within it
Enter	submit, in these fields: Name in New project (Create) · Organization name in Create organization (Create) · Title or File name in New flow (Open canvas) · Name in Rename flow and Duplicate flow (Rename / Duplicate) · Message in Save (Save; not while a conflict is shown) · Email in Invite member (Send invite) · Value in Add secret (Add secret) · Name in Save … to library (Save to library)
↓ on the template picker, then ↑ / ↓	open the template list in New project, then move through the templates
Esc in the template list	close the list (not the dialog)
Enter or Space on the drop area	choose a file in Import questionnaire

Other dialogs (for example Deposit, Connect …, Schedule a run, Upload file) have no Enter shortcut; use their buttons.

A dialog opens with the focus in its first field, so you can type at once; a dialog that only asks you to confirm takes the focus itself.

Other fields with Enter

Where	Enter does
Profile → API keys, Key name	Create key
Organization settings → Integrations, Endpoint URL	Add webhook
Project settings → Runtime, package field	adds the package to the list

Builder

Keys	Action	Notes
Ctrl/Cmd + S	open the Save dialog	works even while you type in a field; with nothing changed it offers to re-pin and re-validate; does nothing while you are following a colleague; with unapplied Source edits it switches to Source and says "Apply or revert your source edits before saving."
Ctrl/Cmd + Z	undo	not while the cursor is in a text field (the field's own undo works there) and not while following
Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + Z or Ctrl/Cmd + Y	redo	same conditions
Enter in an answer option's Label	add a new option below it, with the next code	Inspector → options
Enter in Variable name	apply the rename (leaving the field does the same)	question Inspector, variable card; conditions, quotas, piping and scripts that use the variable follow it
Enter in a page's Name	apply the new name (leaving the field does the same)	page Inspector; the name is not applied while you type
Esc in a page's Name	put the current name back	page Inspector

Undo keeps up to 100 steps. The undo history is cleared when you save, when you switch projects, and while a colleague's edits are shown to you.

Logic map

Keys	Action
Enter (or double-click) on a page	open that page in Structure
Enter (or double-click) on a row of the dependency view	open that page or question in Structure

Flows canvas

Keys	Action	Notes
Ctrl/Cmd + S	open the Save dialog	works while typing; does nothing while following
Ctrl/Cmd + Enter	Run to here on the selected node; with nothing selected, preview the whole flow	works while typing and in every view (Canvas, List, Report)
Delete / Backspace	delete the selected node
Ctrl/Cmd + D	duplicate the selected node, with the same wires into it and none out of it
Ctrl/Cmd + Z	undo
Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + Z	redo	Ctrl/Cmd + Y does not redo on flows
double-click a node	select it and Run to here	Canvas view
F	turn focus mode on or off: the canvas takes the whole window, the palette and the inspector stay	Canvas view only, nothing in List or Report; the key marked F in any keyboard layout; not with Ctrl, Cmd or Alt; not on a list field of the inspector, where a letter picks a value
Esc	clear the selected node; with none selected, leave focus mode	Canvas view only; an open dialog, a menu, a list open in the inspector, an ⓘ tip or the text field that has the focus uses it first; a node or wire that has the keyboard focus while none is selected keeps it (press F instead); in full screen the first Esc leaves full screen

Delete, Backspace, Ctrl/Cmd + D and undo/redo are ignored while the cursor is in a field or on a list field of the inspector, open or closed, in the Report view, and while a colleague holds the edit lock. F is ignored while a text field or a list field has the focus and while a list, a dialog or a menu is open (a focused checkbox or switch does not stop it, nor does a Data file node's Reading options left open in the inspector), and Ctrl/Cmd + F stays the browser's Find. With More open, Esc closes it and the next Esc is the canvas's; Tab out of an open More closes it too. On a flow, undo history survives a Save and is cleared when you leave the flow.

With the keyboard, Tab reaches the canvas's buttons — Zoom in, Zoom out, Fit view, Focus mode and, in focus mode, Full screen — right after the palette, before the nodes and wires.

Flow inspector lists

Every picker of the flow inspector — a parameter's choices, a variable, an answer code, a file a node reads, the flow's Report path, a Filter rows condition's variable, operator, answer and ALL / ANY — is a list, and so are a report item's width and space above (see Lists in the inspector). The codes of a condition with in or not in are a choose codes checklist instead.

Keys	Where	Action
Enter, Space, ↓ or ↑	on the field	open the list on the chosen value (Home / End: on the first / last)
a letter	on the field	open the list on the first value that starts with it; a list of more than ten opens with the letter in its filter box. F does not toggle focus mode here
↑ / ↓	in the list	move one row; wraps around at either end (past the last to the first, and back)
Home / End	in the list	the first / the last row (in a filter box, only while it is empty)
Page Up / Page Down	in the list	about a screenful up / down, stopping at the first and the last row
letters	in a list of ten or fewer	jump to the first value that starts with them
letters	in a filter box	keep the entries whose name or line under it contains every word typed; the empty entry (— pick a variable —) is left out once you type
Enter or Space	in the list	choose the lit row (Space types a space in a filter box)
Esc	in the list	close the list, back on the field; in a filter box with text, the first Esc empties the box and the second closes the list. Focus mode and the node's selection stay
Tab / Shift + Tab	in the list	close the list and move on to the next field / stay on the field
Esc	on the closed field	clear the selected node (Canvas view only), as on any button of the inspector

Delete, Backspace, Ctrl/Cmd + D and Ctrl/Cmd + Z do nothing to the node from a list field, open or closed; Ctrl/Cmd + S and Ctrl/Cmd + Enter still save and preview.

Tips behind an ⓘ

The help of a field or a node sits behind the ⓘ beside its label (see The inspector); pointing at it with the mouse opens it too.

Keys	Action
Enter or Space on an ⓘ	open its tip and keep it open; press again to close it
Esc	close the open tip, and nothing else: an open list, focus mode and the node's selection stay. The focus goes back to the ⓘ when you opened the tip yourself, and stays in the field you are typing in when the tip opened on hover
↑ / ↓, Page Up / Page Down, Home / End on the ⓘ	scroll a tip you opened that scrolls (one too tall for the room it opens in)

Flows List view and the node picker

The List view shows the same flow as a table you can work from the keyboard.

Keys	Action
↑ / ↓	move between node rows (the focused node is selected)
Enter on a row	select the node and Run to here
Ctrl/Cmd + K	open Add a node (the Node picker under the table)
↑ / ↓ in the picker	choose a node type
Enter in the picker	add the chosen node
Esc in the picker	close it

The picker's footer repeats this: "↑ ↓ choose · Enter adds · Esc closes". Ctrl/Cmd + K works only while the List view is showing.

Comments

Keys	Action
Ctrl/Cmd + Enter	post the comment (in any Add a comment… box)

Data

Keys	Action
Enter in Filter loaded rows…	search every row of the table on the server, not only the loaded ones (the same as Search all rows)
Enter or Space on a focused column header	sort the loaded rows by that column
↑ / ↓, Home / End in the export menu	move through the formats; Enter exports
Esc	close the export menu; the focus goes back to Export

Panels and resizers

The divider between the canvas and an inspector or preview (Builder inspector, flow node inspector, report preview) can be resized from the keyboard:

Keys	Action
←	widen the panel by 16 pixels
→	narrow the panel by 16 pixels
Home	back to the default width

Double-clicking the divider also resets it. The width is remembered in your browser.

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Mouse and drag

Gesture	Effect
Drag a question card	move it within the page, into or out of a block, or onto another page in the page rail
Drag a page in the rail	reorder the questionnaire (the ↑ / ↓ buttons above the page do the same)
Drag a node from the palette onto the canvas	add it where you drop it (clicking a palette item adds it too)
Drag a node on the canvas	move it: it follows the pointer with its wires, the minimap shows, and it settles on the grid when you let go; one Undo step; one node at a time; not while you follow a colleague
Shift + drag on the canvas	pan, as a plain drag on an empty spot does (there is no selection box)
Drag from a node's output to another node's input	connect them
Double-click a node	Run to here
Double-click a page in the Logic map	open it in Structure
Click a column header in Data	sort the loaded rows
Drag a panel divider	resize the panel; double-click to reset

See also

• The Builder
• Analysis Flows
• Working Together
• History and Versions

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