I'm looking into creating keyboard shortcuts for working with a Sharepoint 2013 List View, to enhance the workflow for our users. I haven't been able to find much information about this, and from my understanding Sharepoint doesn't support this out-of-box.
So, we're to develop a custom JavaScript script that binds keyboard events to functions. These are some of the features that we need:
- Up/Down toggles selected item in the list (currently the page scrolls).
- E edits the currently selected row. Corresponds to clicking the edit-icon.
- G should navigate the user to a link in a column of the selected row. Corresponds to cliking the link in that column.
- Numbers 1-10 toggles between the different views of the list.
Could anyone provide any guidance on how to approach this task? Are there any JavaScript features of the list that we can hook into in order to select/toggle between rows? From there on I'm guessing that it's mostly a jQuery (or similar) task to simulate a "click" on the corresponding links in the different columns. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Any guidance and tips would be much appreciated. Thank you!