Tips & Tricks - Work surface

This article explains useful tips about the desktop settings and shortcuts for scripting editors.

Drag element to the workspace

If you drag an element onto the workspace and touch the "Zoom" or "Hidden area" tab with the mouse, the zoom or hidden area is brought to the foreground. This behavior can be switched off in the main menu "Extras / Options / Applications".

Deactivate the setting "Workspace / Zoom / Bring hidden area to the foreground with drag & drop". This will switch off the automatic tab switching described above.

Open editor

The JavaScript editor can be opened from the desktop with the F12 key and maximized with the F11 key. Here, you do not necessarily have to have clicked on an element which contains JavaScript. If a VTL include element is selected, the velocity editor is opened by pressing the F12 key.

Select elements within a grouping

By holding down the left mouse button, you can drag to select multiple elements. However, this can be sometimes be difficult in a grouping, for example when groupings are too close together and you cannot find a good position to start the dragging from. Instead, you can select the grouping by clicking on it and then select all of the grouping's direct child elements with CTRL + A. You can also select an element within the grouping and press CTRL + A. All of the elements related to that element will then be selected.

Zoom area

You will find the "Zoom" tab above the workspace. If the "Grid" element is created on a page without a table layout, the individual containers of the grid can be edited in the zoom area.

Here, for example, is the input page that is included in every new application created with the "Basic application" template. If you want to include additional elements in a grid row, simply open the zoom area by double-clicking on the grid row.

In the zoom area, you have your "own" workspace per grid line, so to speak, on which you can arrange the desired elements. To return to the workspace, simply click on the "Workspace" tab directly next to the "Zoom" tab.