Quick Open

Quick Open and the Command Palette

AnyAutomation Studio uses the editor's built-in keyboard navigators. Two of them cover almost everything:

• Quick Open — press Ctrl+P. Type to fuzzy-search files reachable from the open folder (your working directory), then press Enter to open one in an editor.
• Command Palette — press Ctrl+Shift+P. Type to find any command exposed by the app — connect to TIA Portal, export blocks, compile, open a panel — and press Enter to run it.

Both open a search box at the top of the window. The popup of results stays open while you type; Esc closes it, and the first result is preselected so pressing Enter immediately runs the top match.

Go to a TIA Portal block, data type, or tag

Files on disk are searchable in Quick Open, but the live items inside the connected TIA Portal project — Program Blocks, Data Blocks, PLC Data Types, and tag tables — are not on-disk files. AnyAutomation Studio adds a dedicated picker for them.

Reach it three ways:

• From Quick Open: press Ctrl+P, then type tia (the word tia followed by a space). The rest of the line fuzzy-filters the project's openable items.
• From the Command Palette: press Ctrl+Shift+P and run Go to Block or Item, which opens Quick Open already seeded with the tia prefix.
• From the Project Explorer: click the Go to Block or Item button in the view's title bar (top of the TIA Portal Side Bar).

What it searches

The picker covers the openable leaves of the loaded project tree:

• code blocks (FB / FC / OB)
• data blocks (DB)
• PLC data types (UDTs)
• tag tables

Each result row shows the item name (with the typed characters highlighted) and a description in the form {kind} · {path} — for example FB · PLC_1 / Program blocks.

What happens on Enter

Selecting an item opens its source in a read-only editor and then focuses and expands the matching node in the Project Explorer tree, so you land on the block both in the editor and in the tree.

Connected state

The picker reads an in-memory snapshot of the tree that the Project Explorer keeps up to date, so results match what the tree shows without a separate round-trip to TIA Portal. When no project is connected the picker shows a single Connect to TIA Portal to search the project entry instead of results; if nothing matches what you typed it shows No matching TIA items.

Keyboard navigation

• Up / Down arrows — move the selection through the result list.
• Enter — open or run the selected row.
• Esc — close the popup.
• Mouse single-click — selects and confirms a row immediately.