Keyboard Shortcuts

Ed provides keyboard shortcuts for navigating BPMN diagrams and opening editors for the selected element. These shortcuts work when a BPMN diagram is open and focus is outside text-editing controls such as inputs, selects, and CodeMirror editors.

Shortcut

Action

Ctrl+ArrowLeft

Select the nearest BPMN flow node to the left.

Ctrl+ArrowRight

Select the nearest BPMN flow node to the right.

Ctrl+ArrowUp

Select the nearest BPMN flow node above.

Ctrl+ArrowDown

Select the nearest BPMN flow node below.

Ctrl+I

Open Instructions for the selected element when it supports instructions. Empty instructions can be opened and edited.

Ctrl+E

Open the BPMN script for a selected Script Task, or the pre-script for another selected task, Call Activity, or Subprocess. Empty scripts can be opened and edited.

Ctrl+Shift+E

Open the post-script for a selected non-Script task, Call Activity, or Subprocess. Empty post-scripts can be opened and edited.

Ctrl+J

Open the web-form editor for a selected User Task. If the task does not yet reference a form, Ed follows the normal form-creation flow.

If nothing is selected, or the selected element does not support the requested editor, the shortcut does nothing.

Code Editor Tab Navigation

Inside a CodeMirror editor, Tab and Shift+Tab normally indent and outdent text. To use those keys for browser focus navigation instead, press Esc, then within two seconds press:

  • Tab to move forward to the next focusable control.

  • Shift+Tab to move backward to the previous focusable control.

The tab-focus mode is temporary, so repeat Esc before Tab or Shift+Tab whenever you need to move focus out of the editor again.