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Using the Keyboard: Shortcuts, Hotkeys, and Accessibility

End users can employ standard keyboard "shortcut" keys to navigate Nintex Apps runtime pages and access on-screen elements (such as tabs, fields, buttons, and menus). This is useful for people with disabilities that affect dexterity or hand-eye coordination, or those using access technologies, as well as people who prefer to navigate a page by keyboard instead by mouse.

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Standard keyboard shortcuts

To move between navigation elements (tabs, buttons, fields, etc.)

  • Tab to move to the next navigation element on the page.
  • Shift + Tab to move to the previous navigation element on the page.

Note:  When a page section includes a search field as well as buttons or filters, tabbing will move first to the search field and then cycle through the remaining elements in that section.

To move between top-level tabs on a navigation bar

  • Left and Right arrows move across the elements in a horizontal navigation bar.
  • Up and Down arrows move up and down the elements in a vertical (dropdown) navigation bar.

To select on-screen elements

  1. Spacebar to open the desired option in a picklist ( or to toggle a checkbox ).

  2. Enter to select an item ( or open a popup ).

    • When you open the popup, the focus is on the X (close) icon; to immediately close the popup, hit Enter again.

  3. Enter or Spacebar to activate a link or action.

  1. Tab to focus on the dropdown element.

  2. Enter or Space to expand the dropdown and focus on the first item.

    • Up and Down Arrows moves the focus up and down through the items in the dropdown.
    • Esc collapses the dropdown and returns focus to top-level navigation.

  1. Enter or Space to expand the sub-navigation's dropdown.

    • Left arrow to move the focus from the sub-navigation element back to the item in the parent dropdown that triggers the sub-navigation.
    • Right arrow to return to the sub-navigation element.

  • Tab to navigate to or from a Table component to other components.

  • Within the table:

    • Left, Right, Up, and Down arrows to move from cell to cell.
    • Enter to convert the current cell into edit mode. (Once inside a cell, arrow key navigation is suspended.)
    • Esc to leave edit mode and resume arrow key navigation.

Important:  Using Enter or Space with navigation elements (such as buttons or dropdowns) that contain both an action (or link) and sub-navigation may produce conflicting results. For maximum keyboard accessibility, avoid creating navigation that includes an action or link coupled with sub-navigation.

Page Designer Hotkeys

Hotkeys are specific keyboard combinations that allow quick navigation around the Nintex Apps page. Currently, Nintex Apps's Page Designer includes the following dedicated hotkeys:

  • Ctrl+S (or ⌘+S ): Save
  • Ctrl+P (or ⌘+P ): Preview
  • Cmd+Z (or ⌘+Z ) for Mac; Ctrl+Z for Windows: Undo
  • Cmd+Shift+Z (or ⌘+Shift+Z ) or Cmd+Y (or ⌘+Y ) for Mac; Ctrl+Y for Windows: Redo

In addition to these embedded hotkeys, builders can define hotkeys.

Nintex Apps for Salesforce

Globally disable keyboard hotkeys

You can disable all keyboard hotkeys within Nintex Apps from the Salesforce setup:

  1. In the Salesforce sidebar, navigate to Build > Develop > Custom Settings.

  2. Next to Preferences, click Manage.

    • Click Edit:

      • Disable Hotkeys for Nintex Apps: Check

    • Click Save.

  3. You may also set this on a per-user or per-profile basis:

    • Click New to create a new setup.

    • In Preferences Edit:

      • Location: User

        • Search for and add the preferred owner(s)

      • Disable Hotkeys for Nintex Apps: Check

Code editor hotkeys

Nintex Apps uses Visual Studio's Monaco code editor, which offers a set of keyboard shortcuts that work in the XML and JavaScript editors. To learn more, see Visual Studio's documentation on Keyboard Shortcuts.

Builder-Defined Hotkeys

You can define hotkeys for mass or global actions on the Table component. Additionally, Button Set, Header, and Wizard components allow you to define hotkeys that trigger actions on the Nintex Apps page, such as:

  • Set Ctrl+S to perform global save on a Button Set or Header/Page Title button.
  • For Wizard step buttons, set Ctrl+> to navigate to the next step and Ctrl+< to navigate previous step.
  • On a Table component, set Ctrl+W to trigger a mass action that marks all selected opportunities "Closed Won."

Note:  Hotkeys will only work if the UI element that triggers the action is visible on the page. If you set a hotkey on a table that's in a Tab Set tab, and that tab is not visible, the hotkey will not trigger the action.

The following keys are available to be combined with the hotkey modifiers (Alt, Ctrl, Command, and Shift):

  • Letters and numbers: A - Z and 0 - 9.

  • Arrow keys: Left, Up, Right, Down.

  • Special keys:

    • Backspace/Delete
    • Delete right
    • End
    • Home
    • Page Down
    • Page Up
    • Tab.

  • Function keys: (F1-F12)

Hotkeys in the Table Component

When a mass or global action is added to a Table component, the Table Action properties pane includes a Hotkeys tab. Click the newly-created action, then use the standard button hotkey properties to create the hotkey.

Note:  Each mass and global action can have its own hotkey.

Hotkeys on Button Set and Header buttons

Any button added to a Button Set or Header/Page Title component can be assigned a hotkey. Click the button to open the Button properties pane, which includes a Hotkeys tab, then use the standard button hotkey properties to create the hotkey.

Hotkeys in the Wizard Component

Just as you can with buttons on the Button Set and Header components, it's possible to add hotkeys to buttons within Wizard steps. Click a newly-created step button to open the Button properties pane, which includes a Hotkeys tab, then use the standard button hotkey properties to create the hotkey.

Note:  Each step button in a Wizard can have it's own hotkey; these hotkeys are independent of hotkeys in other Wizard steps. This means that if you have a consistent set of navigation buttons-for example, a "Next" button and a "Previous" button—in multiple steps, you need to add a hotkey to those buttons within each step.

Support for Access Technology

Nintex Apps's Spark release, v2 API and Ink component pack bring the product into greater alignment with WAI-ARIA specifications. Nintex Apps supports the following sections of the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT):

  • Section 1194.21 Software Applications and Operating Systems: supports
  • Section 1194.22 Web-based Internet Information and Applications: supports with exceptions
  • Section 1194.31 Functional Performance Criteria: supports with exceptions
  • Section 1194.41 Information, Documentation, and Support: supports

Nintex Apps continues to improve the accessibility of Nintex Apps runtime pages, with the ultimate goal of meeting the global standard WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2.0 AA. For more information, see the VPAT.