I was watching the #til channel on SNDevs slack. The navigation shortcut of table.filter came up. I didn't know about it. It's great. Instead of writing about just that, I include all the shortcuts.

ServiceNow has 3 sets of shortcuts. They have UI15 Keyboard shortcuts. I'm not covering those as no one uses UI15 anymore.

Keyboard shortcuts

There's only a few that ServieNow observes. Extensions add some too.

Out of box shortcuts

A thing to note, some of these are configurable

From SN Utils

Source: https://twitter.com/sn_utils/status/1192913388906713088

Navigation shortcuts

ServiceNow's docs on this are... well they say this same thing. I just wish there was more to this. Source

I looked for where these are configured/built, and they are hardcoded in /scripts/app.magellan/directive.magellanNavigationFilter.js.

/*! RESOURCE: /scripts/app.magellan/directive.magellanNavigationFilter.js */
angular.module('Magellan').directive('magellanNavigationFilter', function(
    $rootScope,
    glideUrlBuilder,
    $window,
    snCustomEvent,
    $timeout,
    concourseNavigatorService
) {
  return {
    restrict: 'A',
    template: '',
    link: function(scope, element) {
      var selectedIndex = 0;
      var selectedElement = null;
      var shortcutCallback = null;
      var collection = [];
      var nav = $j('#nav_west_center');
      element.on('focus', function() {
        $timeout(function() {
          element.select();
        }, 10);
      });
      scope.clearHighlight = function() {
        angular.element('#gsft_nav a.state-active').removeClass('state-active');
      };
      var _$navRoot;

      function _focusFirstItem() {
        if (!_$navRoot) {
          _$navRoot = $window.jQuery('#gsft_nav');
        }
        $timeout(function() {
          $window.requestAnimationFrame(function() {
            _$navRoot.find('.state-active').removeClass('state-active');
            var $visibleItems = _$navRoot.find('a.sn-widget-list-item:visible');
            if ($visibleItems.length) {
              $visibleItems.eq(0).addClass('state-active');
            }
          });
        }, 100);
      }
      scope.filterText = '';
      scope.filterTextValue = function(newValue, highlightFirstItem) {
        if (angular.isDefined(newValue)) {
          concourseNavigatorService.filterTerm = newValue;
          scope.filterText = newValue;
          clearShortcutPreview();
          if (handleNavFilterExtension(scope.filterText)) {
            return;
          }
          handleShortcuts(scope.filterText);
          if (highlightFirstItem === undefined || highlightFirstItem)
            _focusFirstItem();
        }
        return scope.filterText;
      };
      scope.handleEnterKeypress = function($event) {
        if (!selectedElement) {
          var $selected = $window.jQuery('#gsft_nav').find('.state-active');
          if ($selected.length) {
            selectedElement = $selected.get(0);
          }
        }
        if (handleEnterKeypressEvent($event)) {
          reset();
        }
        handleShortcutCallback();
      };
      var DETECT_JAVASCRIPT = /^javascript:/;

      function handleEnterKeypressEvent($event) {
        if (!selectedElement || !selectedElement.href) {
          return false;
        }
        if (DETECT_JAVASCRIPT.test(selectedElement.href)) {
          $window.location.href = selectedElement.href;
          return true;
        } else {
          scope.navigate(selectedElement.href, selectedElement.getAttribute('target'));
          $event.preventDefault();
          return true;
        }
      }

      function handleShortcutCallback() {
        if (!shortcutCallback)
          return;
        shortcutCallback();
        scope.filterTextValue('');
        clearShortcutPreview();
      }

      function handleNavFilterExtension(val) {
        try {
          if (typeof $window.navFilterExtension === "function" && $window.navFilterExtension(val, msg))
            return true;
        } catch (e) {
          jslog("Error in UI Script navFilterExtension - " + e);
        }
      }

      function handleShortcuts(filterText) {
        var tooltip = '';
        var table = '';
        shortcutCallback = null;
        if (filterText.length < 5)
          return;
        if (filterText.endsWith('.form')) {
          table = filterText.replace('.form', '').toLowerCase().replace(/ /g, '');
          tooltip = 'Press enter to open the ' + table + ' form';
          shortcutCallback = function() {
            scope.navigate(glideUrlBuilder.getCancelableLink(table + '.do?sys_id=-1'));
          };
        } else if (filterText.endsWith('.list')) {
          table = filterText.replace('.list', '').toLowerCase().replace(/ /g, '');
          tooltip = 'Press enter to open the ' + table + ' list';
          shortcutCallback = function() {
            scope.navigate(glideUrlBuilder.getCancelableLink(table + '_list.do'));
          };
        } else if (filterText.endsWith('.config')) {
          table = filterText.replace('.config', '').toLowerCase().replace(/ /g, '');
          tooltip = 'Press enter to open the ' + table + ' configuration';
          shortcutCallback = function() {
            scope.navigate(glideUrlBuilder.getCancelableLink(buildTableConfigURL(table)));
          };
        } else if (filterText.endsWith('.filter')) {
          table = filterText.replace('.filter', '').toLowerCase().replace(/ /g, '');
          tooltip = 'Press enter to open an empty ' + table + ' list';
          shortcutCallback = function() {
            scope.navigate(glideUrlBuilder.getCancelableLink(table + '_list.do?sysparm_filter_only=true'));
          };
        } else if (filterText.endsWith('.FORM')) {
          table = filterText.replace('.FORM', '').toLowerCase().replace(/ /g, '');
          tooltip = 'Press enter to open the ' + table + ' form in a new window';
          shortcutCallback = function() {
            $window.open(glideUrlBuilder.newGlideUrl(table + '.do?sys_id=-1').getURL());
          };
        } else if (filterText.endsWith('.LIST')) {
          table = filterText.replace('.LIST', '').toLowerCase().replace(/ /g, '');
          tooltip = 'Press enter to open the ' + table + ' list in a new window';
          shortcutCallback = function() {
            $window.open(glideUrlBuilder.newGlideUrl(table + '_list.do').getURL());
          };
        } else if (filterText.endsWith('.CONFIG')) {
          table = filterText.replace('.CONFIG', '').toLowerCase().replace(/ /g, '');
          tooltip = 'Press enter to open the ' + table + ' configuration in a new window';
          shortcutCallback = function() {
            $window.open(buildTableConfigURL(table));
          };
        } else if (filterText.endsWith('.FILTER')) {
          table = filterText.replace('.FILTER', '').toLowerCase().replace(/ /g, '');
          tooltip = 'Press enter to open an empty ' + table + ' list in a new window';
          shortcutCallback = function() {
            $window.open(glideUrlBuilder.newGlideUrl(table + '_list.do?sysparm_filter_only=true').getURL());
          };
        } else if (filterText.endsWith('_list.do')) {
          table = filterText.replace('_list.do', '').toLowerCase().replace(/ /g, '');
          tooltip = 'Press enter to open the ' + table + ' list';
          shortcutCallback = function() {
              scope.navigate(table + '_list.do');
          };
        } else if (filterText.endsWith('.do')) {
          var path = filterText.toLowerCase().replace(/ /g, '');
          tooltip = 'Press enter to open ' + path;
          shortcutCallback = function() {
              scope.navigate(path);
          };
        }
        top.NOW.magellan && top.NOW.magellan.setNavigatingState && top.NOW.magellan.setNavigatingState(true);
        if (tooltip != '')
          previewShortcut(tooltip);
      }

      function buildTableConfigURL(table) {
        var url = glideUrlBuilder.newGlideUrl('personalize_all.do');
        url.addParam('sysparm_rules_table', table);
        url.addParam('sysparm_rules_label', table);
        return url.getURL();
      }

      function previewShortcut(title) {
        var placement = document.documentElement.getAttribute('dir') == 'rtl' ? 'left' : 'right';
        jQuery(element).tooltip({
          placement: placement,
          container: 'body',
          trigger: 'manual',
          title: title
        }).tooltip('show');
        scope.isPreviewOpen = true;
      }

      function clearShortcutPreview() {
        if (scope.isPreviewOpen) {
          jQuery(element).tooltip('destroy');
          scope.isPreviewOpen = false;
          shortcutCallback = null;
        }
      }

      function setSelected(index) {
        var element;
        if (index != selectedIndex) {
          jQuery(selectedElement).removeClass('state-active');
          selectedIndex = index;
          selectedElement = collection[index];
          element = jQuery(selectedElement);
          element.addClass('state-active');
        }
      }

      function reset() {
        selectedIndex = -1;
        if (selectedElement) {
          jQuery(selectedElement).removeClass('state-active');
          selectedElement = null;
        }
        collection = [];
      }
      $rootScope.$on('applicationTree.rendered', function() {
        reset();
        if (scope.data.filteredApplications && scope.data.filteredApplications.length > 0 && scope.filterText.length > 0) {
          setTimeout(function() {
            collection = jQuery('#gsft_nav').find('a.sn-widget-list-item');
            if (collection.length > 0)
              for (var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
                  if (collection[i].href && collection[i].href != 'javascript:void(0)') {
                    setSelected(i);
                    nav.scrollTop(0);
                    break;
                  }
                }
          }, 10);
        }
        if (scope.filterText === '') {
          clearShortcutPreview();
        }
      });
      jQuery('.nav-body').on('click', 'a', function() {
        if (jQuery(this).attr('href') != '#') {
          reset();
        }
      });
    }
  };
});;