hotkeys to collapse/expand task tree view

[Frank Rueter]

Hi all,

it would be totally amazing to have hotkeys to quickly collapse and expand the task tree view with hotkeys.

EDIT: I am aware of the standard right/left arrow keys but the below would provide more control.

I use WingIDE for Python development and am constantly collapsing and expanding code blocks to keep an overview over complex modules.

This is how it could work in ftrack:

• alt+Home > collapse entire tree
• alt+End > expand entire tree
• alt+down arrow > expand selected entity "more", i.e. by one level  e.g. if a show is selected, it woudl only expand to reveal it's immediate children like assets and sequences). If a sequence is selected it woudl expand to reveral it's shots (without expanding to task level)
• alt+up arrow > collapse the currently selected enity "more", i.e. by one level (reverse of alt+down arrow)
• alt+ctrl+down arrow > same as alt+down arrow but expand the entire branch not just one level
• alt+ctrl+up arrow > same as alt+up arrow but collapse the entire branch not just one level

Here is a little mockup in Wing for a visual:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CUXBfIWqrPudfv-AvFa9Y-rNrxjdc63l/view?usp=sharing

Thoughts?

 

Cheers,

frank

[Andrew Lawrence]

Hi @Frank Rueter, thanks for the excellent suggestion here. Being a keyboard evangelist myself I'm always down for more ways to speed up workflows with keys. 

We were testing this out and although not a keyboard shortcut per say, if you hold down CMD  (on a mac) or CTRL (on windows) and click on the objects dropdown arrow, that will expand everything beneath that object in the hierarchy. The same goes in reverse if you want to close it, whereas a normal click will only drop down what is directly below it.

I'm sure you may already be aware of that and realise it doesn't cover all cases, but just wanted to post it here incase

We'd be happy to log the remaining shortcuts as a feature request with our team though, thanks for providing such detailed use-cases there, it really helps our team when designing these things to know how users intend to use them. 

Cheers,

Andrew

 

[Frank Rueter]

Ah, thanks, I was not aware of the modifier keys, that is actually quite helpful I think, especially the combo of cmd+click to "compact" the tree, then normal click to expand only the the first level.

 

Thanks!

frank

[Frank Rueter]

Hmmm, this isn't working reliably on Linux at all. Usually the arrow keys control the progressbar until I open the detail pane on the right or manage to click in some magic spot.

Once I get teh arrow keys to work the ctrl+click doens't work .... until it finallly does eventually.

Can you verify that?