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Aurora: Use keyboard shortcuts and Markdown to work faster

While creating or editing community content, you can make use of keyboard shortcuts and keyboard navigation to work faster and more efficiently.

The Content Editor also supports Markdown. Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax commonly used by writers and programmers to write quickly without having to take time using the RTE toolbar options.

For example, to bold a word, like “Dishes," you can type **Dishes** instead of having to highlight the text and click the Bold icon in the editing toolbar.

In other example, to insert an emoji, you can type colon (:) along with the emoji name and select the required emoji from the search results:



While creating or editing any content, you can refer to the Editor Help for assistance using these tools.


View the Editor Help by clicking the Options icon > Help in the toolbar.

Note: The Editor Help recognizes if you are using a Mac or Windows machine and displays the appropriate keyboard shortcuts and commands. 

The Editor Help provides the information about these aspects:

  • Shortcuts: Use keyboard shortcuts to quickly apply standard text and paragraph formatting (for example, bold, italics, paragraph headers) to your content.

 

  • Keyboard Navigation: Describes how you can navigate community pages using the keyboard instead of a mouse to meet accessibility requirements.

  • Markdown syntax: Lists the markdown syntaxes you can use while writing the content instead of formatting the text using toolbar options. For example, to apply Heading 1  while starting a paragraph to a word -  “Content Editor” you can type  # Content Editor instead of having to highlight the text and click the Heading 1 option in the editing toolbar.
    Similarly, you can use other markdown syntaxes to format the content.
     

Let’s look at an example where you want to refer to the Editor Help while creating a discussion.


To view the Editor Help, Check out the below walkthrough:

11 STEPS

1. Go to the board where you want to create a discussion and click Start a Discussion.

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2. The editor window opens.

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3. Enter the Title of the discussion.

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4. Enter the content for your discussion.

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5. To view the Editor Help, click the Options icon > Help.

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6. By default, the Editor Help window is displayed with the Shortcuts tab.

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7. To view accessibility information, click Keyboard Navigation.

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8. To view the list of Markdown syntaxes, click Markdown Syntax.

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9. Close this window.

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10. Click Publish.


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11. The discussion is successfully published.

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** Best experienced in Full Screen (click the icon in the top right corner before you begin) **

https://www.iorad.com/player/2173528/View-the-Editor-Help

Updated 6 months ago
Version 6.0
  • Yes!!! Markdown!

    Does the editor show the preview of the what the text will look like with the Markdown implemented? Or will you only see it once the content is posted?

  • BhuvanaM's avatar
    BhuvanaM
    Khoros Alumni (Retired)

    Cloud_Spanner Thanks for reaching out!!

    In the editor, when you type any of the markdown syntaxes along with the text and press Enter, the style will be applied to the respective text in the editor itself. You can view the implemented style both in preview and after the content is published.

    For example, to apply "Heading 2" style, type ## along with the heading text and press enter:

    ## Heading2 

     

  • There is one important syntax missing: code blocks

    The Markdown symbol for a code block is three backticks (```) or three tildes (~~~) on the lines before and after the code block. 

    This would be the most used in our technical community. 

     

  • oh man...if Markdown is there without '''code blocks.
    I'll get no end of guff.

  • VedanthY's avatar
    VedanthY
    Khoros Alumni (Retired)

    Hi all, 

    we are implementing code blocks using 3 "`"s in the upcoming Aurora releases.