Keyboard short cuts for categories

[Lord_Helmchen]

Maybe I'm blind, but I can't find a way to assign a keyboard shortcut to a category for quick keyboard based assignment. At least I don't see any designated property for this.

Is this useful IM3 feature discontinued?

[Mario]

Use Favorites.

[Lord_Helmchen]

Keyboard is faster! 

So I may need to issue a feature request. 

[Mario]

I meant you can assign keyboard shortcuts to Favorites. This is explained in the help.
And when you create Favorites for categories or category sets (the new splashers) you can assign and un-assign them via keyboard shortcuts.

Doing a separate thing for categories is not going to happen. If you want to trigger move, copy, asssign, un-assign, script runs, app runs etc. use Favorites. That's the global concept that works for everything.

[Lord_Helmchen]

Ah. I see. That's helpful. But still only one character. And still only one character for that short cut. So no way to have "structured" short cuts like:
<F3><L><G> for location Germany
<F3><L><U> for location US
<F3><A><B> for animal bird
<F3><A><C> for animal cat

That would be very helpful. Any chance to get something like that in future versions? 

[Mario]

I will not add separate keyboard shortcuts to categories. Favorites work extremely well for most users. If you cannot work with what's there, you can always add a feature request. There are currently 300 other feature requests open.

[Lord_Helmchen]

I have no problem for having short-cuts only for favorites. What I'm more interested in is having two key short cuts. Because then I could have some mobilizable structure in short-cuts rather than randomly assigned (because I could only use one character).

[Mario]

You know that you can use all letters in the alphabet, plus combinations of <Shift>,<Ctrl> and <Shift>+<Ctrl>+key? That's a lot of unique keyboard shortcuts you can assign to all your favorites.

Implementing this will be a rather large change in all Favorites and keyboard shortcut handling. I would even need to implement custom UI controls for the shortcut dialog because the Windows keyboard shortcut input control does not support multi-key shortcuts...quite a lot of work.

Add a feature request and we see how many comments and votes you get. Should be a larger number of users who ask for this before I consider this.

[Lord_Helmchen]

Using <Ctrl>, <Shift> etc. helps to increase max. number of short cuts, but doesn't really help have a structured to of assigning shortcuts.

I'll open a feature request for this.