Keyboard basics

The default shortcuts worth learning first, and how to change them in Preferences > Keymap.

Almost every action in Oxys DB Studio has a keyboard shortcut, and you can change any of them. The shortcuts below are the defaults on Windows and Linux.

The essentials

Shortcut	Action	Also in
Ctrl+N	Open the Connection Manager	Global Toolbar > Connect
Ctrl+L	Open IntelliShell	Global Toolbar > IntelliShell
Shift+Ctrl+L	Open a SQL Query tab	Global Toolbar > SQL
F4	Open the Aggregation Editor	Global Toolbar > Aggregate
Ctrl+M	Open Map-Reduce
Ctrl+B	Show or hide the Visual Query Builder	Collection Tab toolbar
Ctrl+G	Open Query Code	Collection Tab > Query Code
Ctrl+R	Refresh the current view	Result toolbar
Ctrl+P	Preferences	Edit > Preferences
Ctrl+Alt+B	Show or hide the Global Toolbar	View > Show/Hide Global Toolbar
F1	Help for the current view	Help > Help for This View

Tabs

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+PgDn	Next tab
Ctrl+PgUp	Previous tab
Ctrl+F4	Close the tab (asks first if it holds unsaved work)
Shift+Ctrl+F4	Close the tab without asking

Results and documents

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+Alt+1	Switch to Tree View
Ctrl+Alt+2	Switch to Table View
Ctrl+Alt+3	Switch to JSON View
F5	Run the query of the query bar
Ctrl+Alt+Left / Ctrl+Alt+Right	Previous / next page
F3	View the selected document
Ctrl+J	Edit the selected document as JSON
Ctrl+D	Insert a document
F2	Edit the selected field in place
Ctrl+E	Edit Value / Type (the dialog, with the type)
Ctrl+K	Add a field or value
Shift+Del	Delete the selected document (asks first)
Ctrl+C	Copy the selected value as text
Shift+Ctrl+C	Copy the whole document
Ctrl+Shift+R	Reload the selected document from the server

See Editing documents and Copy and paste for the rest.

Editors and scripts

Shortcut	Action
F5	Run the whole script (IntelliShell), pipeline (Aggregation Editor) or statement (SQL Query)
F6	Run the statement at the cursor (IntelliShell)
F9	Run the selection (IntelliShell)
Ctrl+Space	Open auto-completion
Ctrl+F / Ctrl+H	Find / Replace
Ctrl+/	Comment or uncomment the line
Ctrl+Alt+L	Format the code
Ctrl+S / Shift+Ctrl+S	Save / Save as
Ctrl+O	Load a saved query or script

In the connection tree

Shortcut	Action
Enter	Open the selected collection, view or GridFS bucket
Ctrl+F	Search the open connections
Ctrl+R	Refresh the selected item
Shift+Ctrl+R	Refresh everything
Ctrl+Alt+D	Disconnect

Change a shortcut

Open Edit > Preferences (Ctrl+P) and choose the Keymap page.
Find the action: type part of its name in the search field, or browse the categories.
Click Add shortcut, then press the key combination you want. An action can have up to three shortcuts of your own.
To go back, select the action and click Reset shortcuts, or Reset all for every action.

Keymap button	What it does
Add shortcut	Adds a key combination to the selected action
Remove all shortcuts	Removes every shortcut of the selected action
Reset shortcuts	Restores the defaults of the selected action
Remove all	Removes every shortcut of every action
Reset all	Restores every default shortcut
Export keymap…, Import keymap…	Save your keymap to a file, or load one, for example to use the same keys on another computer

Tips

Hover any Global Toolbar button to see its shortcut; menu items show theirs next to the label.
The same key can do different things depending on where the keyboard focus is: Ctrl+C copies a value in the result views but copies the collection when the tree has the focus.
The keymap already defines macOS bindings (with ⌘ in place of Ctrl), but there is no macOS build yet; see Install.
In the browser version, the browser keeps a few shortcuts for its own windows and tabs (Ctrl+N, Ctrl+T, Ctrl+W, Ctrl+PgDn…): Alt+N, Alt+T, Alt+W, Alt+PgDn… replace them there, and the menus and the Keymap page show them. See Use Oxys DB Studio in a browser.