Keyboard Shortcuts & Triggers
Most features are launched from the ⚡ side button menu rather than global hotkeys, so they never collide with Salesforce’s own shortcuts. On top of that, the extension exposes a toolbar popup and a small set of browser-level keyboard commands you can remap yourself.
Toolbar popup
Clicking the extension’s toolbar icon opens a thin popup scoped to the active tab. On a Salesforce tab it shows:
- Whether the tab is a Salesforce page, and which org it belongs to.
- A live session-status indicator (is your Salesforce session resolved?).
- A bridge status indicator (is the sfdt CLI bridge reachable?).
- Quick buttons — Open Workspace, the quick menu, and Settings.
- The installed extension version.
On any non-Salesforce tab the popup shows a simple “not a Salesforce tab” state instead.
Browser keyboard commands
Three commands are declared at the browser level, so they work on a Salesforce tab even before
the in-page script has loaded. They’re remappable at
chrome://extensions/shortcuts (Chrome may leave some unassigned if the default collides with
another extension).
| Command | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Open Workspace | Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+E | Opens the Workspace tab |
| Open command palette | Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+K | Opens the command palette (falls back to the ⚡ side menu if the palette is disabled) |
| Toggle inspector | (unset) | Reserved for the LWC inspector — shows a “not available yet” notice until that feature ships |
Remap or clear any of these from chrome://extensions/shortcuts. Because they’re Chrome
commands rather than page shortcuts, they don’t collide with Salesforce’s own keys.
In-page keyboard shortcut
One feature has a dedicated, configurable in-page shortcut:
| Action | Shortcut | Configurable? |
|---|---|---|
| Open Canvas Search in Flow Builder | Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+F | Yes — set shortcut under canvas-search in Settings |
Inside Canvas Search, Enter cycles through matches and the canvas pans to centre each one.
The ⚡ side button
The side button mounts in the top frame only on Salesforce Lightning and Setup pages. It does not appear on non-Salesforce pages, and it does not appear inside classic Visualforce iframes.
Clicking it opens a menu pinned to its left. The menu lists only the features relevant to the current context:
| Context | Example menu items |
|---|---|
| Generic Setup | Setup Tabs, Scheduled Flow Explorer, Trigger Conflicts, Subflow Caller Graph, SOQL Runner, Org Limits |
| Setup → Flows list | Flow List Search, plus the Setup items above |
| Flow Details (classic VF) | Flow Version Manager |
| Flow Builder canvas | Canvas Search, Show Missing Descriptions, Run Health Check, AI Assistant, API Name Generator, Deploy / Rollback |
| Compare Flows | Comparison Exporter |
| Record / Object Manager | Inspect Record, Data Import, Field Creator, Export Schema for Prompt |
SPA navigation
Salesforce is a single-page app. When you navigate — for example from Setup to Object Manager — the menu refreshes to match the new context without a full page reload.
Open the Workspace tab (side menu → Open Workspace ↗) to reach tools like Apex Anonymous, Debug Log Viewer, and Saved SOQL in a dedicated tab. See The Workspace Tab.