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Command Palette

The Command Palette is the keyboard-driven side of Global Search. It is the same overlay you open from the top search bar, but optimized for users who want to navigate, search, and act without touching the mouse.

Opening the Command Palette

Press Cmd+KCtrl+K from anywhere in Qualytics. The palette opens as an overlay focused on the search input, ready for you to start typing.

You can also click the search bar at the top of the application to open the same overlay.

How Results Are Organized

As you type, the palette shows matching items grouped into categories. Typical groups include:

  • Navigation: sections of the platform you can jump to (Explore, Library, Tags, Flows, Settings).
  • Operations: actions you can trigger on the currently selected asset (sync, profile, scan, export, materialize).
  • Create: shortcuts to create new entities (quality checks, templates, flows, tags, teams, service users, tokens).
  • How-tos: interactive walkthroughs for tasks on the page you are on, such as running a Scan or adding a check. Each entry only appears when your permission allows the real action.
  • Resources: documentation links (User Guide, API Docs).

The exact set of suggestions depends on where you are in the platform when you open the palette.

When the selected asset is a computed table, computed file, or computed join, the palette offers Edit computed ... and Delete this ... for it. Both respect computed asset ownership: they appear for users with the Editor team permission, and also for a user with the Author team permission who owns that asset. Running operations on it, such as profile, scan, or materialize, still requires Editor.

Asset Search

The Command Palette focuses on commands, navigation, and creation. To search for data assets (datastores, containers, fields) by name, use Asset Search. See Keyboard Shortcuts for the dedicated shortcut and walkthrough.

Selecting and Executing

  • Use ↑ and ↓ to move between results.
  • Press Enter to execute the currently highlighted command.
  • Press Esc to dismiss the palette without taking any action.

Because the palette never loses focus until you act or dismiss it, you can chain quick navigations and actions back-to-back without reaching for the mouse.

The How-tos Scope

Press H on its own, outside of any text field, and the palette opens already narrowed to the How-tos group, under the heading How-tos for this page. Selecting one starts an interactive walkthrough: each step highlights the part of the interface it talks about while the application stays fully usable, so you complete the real task as you follow along rather than watching a locked tour. A User Guide button on every step opens the matching article in a side panel.

The same walkthroughs are also offered where they matter most: dialogs that have one show a Show me how link in their header, and while such a dialog is open, H starts its walkthrough directly instead of opening the palette.

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