I want to throw my weight behind this one. The lack of even the most basic keyboard control (such as proper tab order...or even tab support at all) is one of my largest daily irritations. The blogs and information linked by the original poster simply add insult to injury.
I see this much more as an issue of website control and usability, and not a shortcut/"Extra feature" issue. This is a significant imapirment to anyone with disabilities attempting to succesfully and easily use HubSpot. I see this as a true core problem.
Here are the requests I have off the top of my head (in no particular order):
fix tabbing! As it is now the tab order is incorrect and tabbing to any drop down box simply defocuses selection - my focus goes 'poof'.
shortcut for hitting save
Shortcut for navigation on longer pages (such as 'Jump to Deal', etc)
Drop down box usability
I'll update this list as I run into additional keyboard control issues. This isn't an all-or-nothing situation; even a single keyboard control improvement would be greatly apprechiated.
If you want some inspiration on excellent keyboard control and menu design, check out the google suite of software. Their keyboard shortcuts are consistant throughout thier products, yet tailored to each product to be efficient and easy to learn/use. You could even make it an option, like google does, with an on-off switch.
I'd love to have keyboard shortcuts for the blog editor, or at least have an editor where I don't have to hunt around just to change the Heading to a paragraph. Serious productivity loss.
Totally agree. I also use my own CRM in FileMaker and the beauty is endless customization of shortcuts, which I use 90% of the time. I find using Hubspot makes my hand cramp since there is so much clicking around and time wasting. They should hold off on the craft beer Friday for one week and build the shortcuts!
Keyboard shortcuts will really help people who are currently using dictation software to access applications on their computer. This especially affects people who are disabled and use the HubSpot software on a daily basis; this would give them a way to navigate around the HubSpot interface without having to use a mouse/keyboard.
Seeing that this has been an open request for a year and a half, I assume it's not a high priority to implement.
So I spent a couple hours last night and made my own, using the Keyboard-Fu Chrome extension which allows you to bind javascript to keystrokes in the browser.
I've published my shortcuts that you can import/build off of/try out:
Hopefully this will help some others while we wait for real implementation.
The shortcuts that work everywhere in HubSpot are: gm- Go to Conversations ("Go Messages") gd- Go to Deals gt- Go to Tickets /- Search (opens the search box and puts the input there) '- Save (it's right next to the return key) -- note that this doesn't work if you're in a text area, so I usually tab or click anywhere then'
Then these shortcuts only work in the conversation inbox: j- Next Message k- Prev Message c- Mark as closed a- Assign email (pops up the assign box, then you can arrow up/down and press return to assign) r- Reply to email (opens the reply box and scrolls you to it, but you still have to click in it, haven't figured that out yet) u- Go to "Unassigned Conversations" view a- Go to "All Conversations" view m- Go to "My Conversations" view
