When tapping the escape key, close sub-menu, not the entire task view
Kevin Quisquater
Hi team, I hope this will be obvious. I've been burned by this SO many times.
If you do anything that opens a small menu (pop-up), if you tap the ESC key, it should close that menu.
Right now, it closes everything.
Steps to reproduce (one example):
- Open a task view
- Create a subtask
- Click the 3 dots next to the subtask. A menu appears as a pop-up
- Tap the ESC key to close that menu
Expected behavior: the menu closes
Actual behavior: the entire task view closes and you have to re-open everything.
I suspect it's a principle of UX/UI: when you close/exit something via shortcut, it has to exit/close the screen.modal that is the "highest" in the hierarchy, the element that is the "closest" to the eyes of the user.
Big thanks for taking a minute to consider it!
Kevin
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Jon MacKinnon
+1 for the escape key not shutting the entire ticket but instead whatever you have open. I get burned by this when opening attachments literally every single time and it's absolutely infuriating and at odds with how practically the entire rest of the internet acts when a modal is active.
Natalie Williams
This also opens if you're viewing a task in the notifications and you open any sub menu hitting ESC closes the task vs closes the menu returning you to the task. I can not even count the number of times a day I'm reopening tasks because hitting ESC doesn't function as expected.
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Sebastian Petrovski
yes please!
Owen L Bickford
+1 I am frequently closing a task by mistake when I intended to close a popover-type element. There are several elements in the app that can obscure text that I'm either reading or writing. In most apps that support hot keys, Escape will typically close popovers, not redirect to another part of the app.
pixojoy
happens when creating tasks in list view, too! please fix
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Scott Gardner
Yes, please change this! Closing the submenu would be much more intuitive.
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Kevin CPA
Another Kevin saying +1 . Close Sub-task view, not the main view!
Kevin Quisquater
Luci N.: Thank you!
Kevin Quisquater
Luci N.: Thank you! Someone from the team at ClickUp told me that I could tag you when discovering duplicates, but I just want to make sure: is it ok for me to tag you like that?
I was asking the person how we could help the team cleaning Canny, because I see tons of duplicates and would love to help you discover them and merge them, it's too much work for you otherwise, tens of thousands of posts.
Luci N.
Merged in a post:
Escape keyboard shortcut to close off pop-ups, modal windows, overlays
Mike Precious
It would be a great granular level time-saver to be able to use the Escape keyboard key to close off pop-ups, modal windows, overlays rather than being forced to move mouse to the "X" to close them out.
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