Appendix II: Shortcut listing

The goal of this appendix is to group all available shortcut keys that trigger the features available in pgModeler. Note that if you are running pgModeler on macOS any appearance of Control (Ctrl) key in the listing below must be replaced by Command (Cmd) key.

Shortcut	Triggered action
Ctrl + N	Create a new model.
Ctrl + O	Load a model.
Ctrl + W	Close the current focused model.
Ctrl + S	Save the current focused model.
Ctrl + P	Print the current focused model.
Ctrl + Shift + S	Save the current focused model with another name.
Ctrl + Shift + H	Hide the main menu bar.
Ctrl + Shift + E	Open the model export dialog.
Ctrl + Shift + I	Open the database import dialog.
Ctrl + Shift + D	Open the model database diff dialog.
Ctrl + Shift + M	Open the manage view (live databases).
Shift + W	Switch to the welcome view.
Shift + D	Switch to the design view.
Ctrl + Q	Quit pgModeler.
Ctrl + Z	Undo an executed operation.
Ctrl + Y	Redo an executed operation.
Ctrl + C	Copy the selected objects.
Ctrl + X	Cut the selected objects.
Ctrl + V	Paste the previously copied objects.
Ctrl + Shift + C	Copy the selected objects and their dependencies.
Ctrl + Shift + X	Cut the selected objects and their dependencies.
Ctrl + D	Duplicate the selected objects.
Del	Delete the selected objects.
Shift + Del	Delete the selected objects in cascade.
Shift + Up	Bring the selected objects to the front of the Z stack.
Shift + Down	Send the selected objects to the back of the Z stack.
Ctrl + G	Toggle canvas area grid.
Ctrl + L	Toggle canvas area page delimiter lines.
Ctrl + H	Toggle the alignment of the objects to the canvas grid.
Ctrl + K	Lock the page delimiters scale when the zoom is below 100%.
Ctrl + 0	Reset the zoom factor.
Ctrl + + (or Ctrl + =)	Zoom in the canvas area.
Ctrl + -	Zoom out the canvas area.
Ctrl + Shift + Up	Expand the canvas to the top.
Ctrl + Shift + Left	Expand the canvas to the left.
Ctrl + Shift + Down	Expand the canvas to the bottom.
Ctrl + Shift + Right	Expand the canvas to the right.
Ctrl + Shift + =	Reset the canvas geometry.
F10	Open the model overview dialog.
F9	Toggle the magnifier.
F1	Open the support page.
F4	Open the about dialog.
F2	Rename the selected objects.
F3	Set the layers of the selected objects.
Ctrl + E	Edit the selected object's permissions.
Alt + Q	Open the custom SQL dialog.
Ctrl + A	Select all objects in the canvas area.
Space	Open the properties dialog for the selected object.
Alt + S	Open the source code preview dialog for the selected object.
Left Arrow	Move canvas area to left.
Right Arrow	Move canvas area to right.
Up Arrow	Move up the canvas area.
Down Arrow	Move down the canvas area.
Shift + Click + Drag	Enable range selection on canvas area.
Middle click + Drag	Enable panning mode on canvas area.
Ctrl + Click	Enable the object multi-selection.
Ctrl + Shift + Click	Enable the table's children multi-selection.
Shift + Click	Add points to the selected relationship line.
Alt + Shift + Click	Reset the relationship labels to their original positions.
Alt + V	Toggle the validation widget.
F5	Execute the command typed in the SQL tool.
Esc	Cancel the SQL command execution in the SQL tool.
Alt + O	Toggle the output widget in the SQL tool.
Ctrl + T	Add a new SQL execution tab for the current database.
Ctrl + Backspace	Clear the SQL input field and the results grid.
Alt + B	Toggle the model objects widget.
Alt + R	Toggle the object search widget.
Alt + L	Toggle the layers widget.
Alt + H	Toggle the changelog widget.
Alt + O	Toggle the operations (history) widget.
Ins	Add a new item to an object's grid.
Del	Delete the selected item from an object's grid.
Shift + Del	Delete all items from an object's grid.
Space	Trigger the editing of the item in an object's grid.
Alt + R	Trigger the update of the item in an object's grid.
Ctrl + D	Trigger the duplication of the item in an object's grid.
Ctrl + Up	Move an item one row up in the object's grid.
Ctrl + Down	Move an item one row down in the object's grid.
Ctrl + Home	Move an item to the first row of the object's grid.
Ctrl + End	Move an item to the last row of the object's grid.
N	Toggle the new object overlay. For the single letter shortcuts below the overlay must be visible in order to trigger their respective actions.
G	Open the cast editing form.
K	Open the event trigger editing form.
E	Open the extension editing form.
7	Open the foreign data wrapper editing form.
L	Open the language editing form.
8	Open the generic SQL editing form.
R	Open the role editing form.
S	Open the schema editing form.
6	Open the foreign server editing form.
P	Open the tablespace editing form.
9	Open the tag editing form.
M	Open the textbox editing form.
5	Open the user mapping editing form.
3	Open the transform editing form.
0	Edit the permissions for the currently selected object.
A	Open the aggregate editing form.
H	Open the collation editing form.
J	Open the conversion editing form.
D	Open the domain editing form.
F	Open the function editing form.
4	Open the foreign table editing form.
U	Open the operator editing form.
O	Open the operator class editing form.
I	Open the operator family editing form.
2	Open the procedure editing form.
W	Open the view editing form.
Q	Open the sequence editing form.
T	Open the table editing form.
Y	Open the type editing form.
C	Open the column editing form.
Z	Open the constraint editing form.
X	Open the index editing form.
V	Open the rule editing form.
B	Open the trigger editing form.
0	Open the table permissions form.
9	Open the policy editing form.
1	Add a one-to-one relationship.
2	Add a one-to-many relationship.
3	Add a many-to-many relationship.
4	Add an inheritance relationship.
5	Add a copy relationship.
6	Add a partitioning relationship.
F5	Refresh data listing in data manipulation dialog.
Alt + G	Open the data manipulation dialog in the SQL tool.
Alt + F5	Perform a quick refresh on the database explorer.
Ctrl + F5	Perform a full refresh on the database explorer.
Ctrl + S	Save changes in data manipulation dialog.
Ctrl + C	Copy selected rows in data manipulation dialog as plain text buffer.
Ctrl + Shift + C	Copy selected rows in data manipulation dialog as CSV buffer.
Ctrl + X	Export results to CSV in data manipulation dialog.
Ctrl + Z	Undo operations in data manipulation dialog.
Ctrl + D	Duplicate the selected rows in the data manipulation dialog.
Ctrl + E	Trigger the bulk data editing in the data manipulation dialog.
Ctrl + V	Paste the contents of the clipboard as text into the data manipulation dialog.
Ctrl + R	Clear the selected cells in the data manipulation dialog.
Ctrl + L	Toggle the CSV loading widget in data manipulation dialog.
Ins	Add a blank row in the data manipulation dialog.
Del	Mark a line to be deleted in the data manipulation dialog.
F12	Open pgModeler settings.
Ctrl + 1	Open the quick object editing search field (Search & edit plug-in).
Ctrl + Shift + B	Open the backup utilities form (Backup utilities plug-in).
Ctrl + M	Create a primary key from the selected table columns (Quick create plug-in).
Ctrl + U	Create a unique key from the selected table columns (Quick create plug-in).
Ctrl + F	Create a foreign key from the selected table columns (Quick create plug-in).