YouTrack Standalone 2017.4 Help

Agile Board Keyboard Shortcuts

YouTrack is a keyboard-centric application and provides enough keyboard support to let you forget about using the mouse in most cases. For almost any operation, whether it's creating, editing or navigating between issues, commenting, changing attributes — YouTrack provides a shortcut.

These shortcuts are mapped to keys on a keyboard with a functional layout for the English language. Keys that differ between US and UK variants are not mapped to any shortcuts. If your keyboard has a visual layout for a different language, you can switch the language preference for your operating system to English and use these shortcuts with the default mapping. Alternatively, an administrator can customize the keyboard shortcuts for your YouTrack server. For more information, see Customize Keyboard Shortcuts.

This page lists the keyboard shortcuts that you can use while working with an agile board. For the complete list of keyboard shortcuts, see Keyboard Shortcuts. You can also download the shortcuts list in PDF format from the YouTrack web site.

Windows/Linux

macOS

Description

Ctrl + Alt + J, or any letter

Control + Option + J, or any letter

Open the Apply Command dialog.

EscEsc

Switch between the board and the search box.
Deselect all selected cards.

SpacebarSpace bar

Toggle the selection of the current card.

F2F2

Open the current card in edit mode.

F3F3

Open the current card in view mode.

F4F4

Edit the estimation for the current card.

DeleteDelete

Remove selected cards from the sprint.

Left ArrowLeft Arrow

Set focus to the card on the left.

Right ArrowRight Arrow

Set focus to the card on the right.

Up ArrowUp Arrow

Set focus to the card above the current card.

Down ArrowDown Arrow

Set focus to the card above the current card.

HomeHome

Set focus to the first card that is visible on the board.

EndEnd

Set focus to the last card that is visible on the board.

Ctrl + Left Arrow

+ Left Arrow

Move the current card to the left.

Ctrl + Right Arrow

+ Right Arrow

Move the current card to the right.

Ctrl + Up Arrow

+ Up Arrow

Move the current card up.

Ctrl + Down Arrow

+ Down Arrow

Move the current card down.

Ctrl + M

Control + M

Assign the current card to the yourself (on new agile board).

Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Insert

Control + Option + Shift + N

Create a new swimlane.

Ctrl + Shift + |

Control + Shift + |

Expand or collapse all swimlanes.

Ctrl + Alt + A

Control + Option + A

Open a dialog to locate and attach a file.

Alt + Insert

Control + N

Add a card to the board.

Ctrl + Alt + Insert

Ctrl + Option + N

Create a subtask for the current card.

Ctrl + Shift + Backspace

Control + Shift + Delete

Toggle backlog visibility.

TabTab

Select the next custom field in the current card.

Shift + Tab

Shift + Tab

Select the previous custom field in the current card.

Ctrl + Slash

Control + Slash

View keyboard shortcuts.

Last modified: 7 March 2019