how to solve shortcuts choice conflic

[uzapuca]

Hi people,
Newbie here. I have just changed from a long history of Illustrator. I would like to start using the same shortcuts like for ordering layers and so on. In Illustrator if you select a shortcut already in use it will let you go where is the shortcut is being used and changed or deleted. How can i do that in Affinity? 

I read a help guide which says

If your chosen shortcut has already been assigned, a warning triangle () shows next to the shortcut. To resolve, assign a different shortcut.

that does not make much sense. I would like to use the shortcut i want, not change it because it in use. Also not having to go to the whole huge list to find out where is the shortcut in use either.

Any help please?

Thanks!😀

 

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

Largely (though not completely) the shortcuts map to items in the Menu. So, if you understand the menu structure, that helps. 

Your process will be:

1. Try to assign a shortcut.
2. If it says there is a conflict, use the yellow triangle to figure out what already has that shortcut.
3. Using your knowledge of the menus, go to that shortcut in the Shortcuts dialog, and delete it
4. Go back to where you were in step 1, and assign your shortcut again.
5. Continue.

The Help (which you can view online at https://affinity.help has a section on Shortcuts that shows many of the shortcuts, which may also help.

[uzapuca]

Hi Walt,
Thanks for the fast reply 😀

If I understand correctly, i have to have a Shortcut Cheat Sheet to find out where is the shortcut applied, right? There is no fast access like Illustrator when you have the triangle or conflict that you click and take you directly to the repeated shortcut. That would be a nice simple feature to have in the future to avoid going to the list. 

Best,

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

7 minutes ago, uzapuca said:

i have to have a Shortcut Cheat Sheet

Or, understand more about the application. But no, there's nothing to take you to the conflict directly.

[loukash]

18 minutes ago, uzapuca said:

to find out where is the shortcut applied

At least on Mac (in Affinity v1, as I don't have access to my v2 apps at the moment), if you hover with the mouse pointer over the yellow triangle, it will display a tooltip with the conflicting command name. 

[walt.farrell]

19 minutes ago, loukash said:

At least on Mac (in Affinity v1, as I don't have access to my v2 apps at the moment), if you hover with the mouse pointer over the yellow triangle, it will display a tooltip with the conflicting command name. 

Yes, but then you need to know where it lives in the Preferences so you can find it and change it.

[loukash]

11 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

then you need to know where it lives

At least on Mac… type the command name into the global Help menu search field. That works only for menu commands, of course, but at least that.