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[J_Allen]

Does Shift + Enter (New Record) supposed to work on Airtable app running under MacOS? It doesn’t for me, so is this an issue?

[Bill_French]

Works as expected for me. Are you referring to the Mac App or a Mac running a browser? That seems to work for me as well with Mac OSX Mojave.

[J_Allen]

Either one … seems odd. Do you have a record selected before it works, or can you open a table and immediately Shift + Enter to add a record? I inadvertently see it works if my cursor is in a an open field of another record … but otherwise no joy. Using the latest released MacOS Catalina, and multiple browsers.

[Bill_French]

J_Allen:

can you open a table and immediately Shift + Enter to add a record?

No, but that’s expected behavior, right? Since you’ve not given the event key handler any context, what should it assume? New record? New view? New block? New table?

[J_Allen]

Bill thanks for the replies.

So I guess I would expect the event handler to interpret Shift + Enter as specific to New Record if you have the table open, since that what the documentation says, and there are other combinations for other things.

I just opened a databases and would expect Shift + Enter insert a new record at the end of the table. Instead, it does nothing. I have to actually select a field in another record, then it works, inserting a record after that record.

[Bill_French]

J_Allen:

I would expect the event handler to interpret Shift + Enter as specific to New Record if you have the table open

Indeed, this is a highly nuanced question because when a table’s tab is selected, there is still no focus set - the UI doesn’t really know your intent at that point. You might want to create a new view, hide a field, or run a script.

As such, the UI guys are likely reluctant to assume your intent is to perform key bindings to records vs to columns or many other possibilities.

J_Allen:

I have to actually select a field in another record, then it works, inserting a record after that record.

Correct - if your focus is in records, Shift + Enter logically creates new records. If you were in the script editor, it should insert a new line, not a new record, despite the fact that a table was indeed selected.

J_Allen:

I have to actually select a field in another record

Or any column as well.

Opinion
In my view, we should be able to configure the keymapping to whatever we each want. :winking_face:

[J_Allen]

Thanks, doc does say below the selected cell, though I missed that “nuance”.

[Bill_French]

J_Allen:

though I missed that “nuance”.

The nice thing about nuances; there are so many to choose from. :winking_face: