Jump to a Master Entity Using a Keyboard Shortcut
Keyboard shortcut for jumping to a master entity in Business Central: holding Control-Alt and pressing the Down arrow on a referenced field, such as an item on a sales order line, opens the related card. The demo uses a sales order and the item card.
- Introduction to Master Entity Navigation
- Opening Sales Orders
- Using Control Alt Down Shortcut
- Applying the Shortcut to Referenced Fields
- Closing Remarks
Overview
This short video shows how to jump from a referenced field to its master entity with a keyboard shortcut. In the demo, a sales order is open and an item is selected on a line. Holding Control and Alt and pressing the Down arrow opens the item card for that product.
The video says the shortcut works for any referenced field, so the same approach applies to customers, items and other master entities.
Key points
- Hold Control and Alt, then press the Down arrow, to jump from a referenced field to its master entity.
- In the demo, the shortcut on an item selected on a sales order line opens the item card for that product.
- The video says it works for any referenced field, for example a customer or an item.
- The presenter says the shortcut works anywhere in Business Central.
- The feature was demonstrated in the video; its release status is not stated.
Features
| Feature | Status | At |
|---|---|---|
| Jump to Master Entity with Keyboard Shortcut | status not stated, demoed | 0:01 |
Quotes
- 0:01 “easily jump to a Master entity with a keyboard shortcut when you work with data in business Central”
- 0:33 “to go directly to the item I’ve selected here I can hold down the key control and ALT and then choose the down arrow”
- 0:53 “Control Alt down to jump directly to the item you’ll see the item card opening here for this specific product”
- 0:53 “this works for any referenced field you can jump to a customer you can jump to items and so on this works anywhere in”