Nested palletes (sub palletes)

[toddlerner]

hi, i'm not sure how to make a nested pallete (1 pallete for me that allows me to type a keystroke to launch any of 4 different other palettes, which in turn can launch a third level of macros). do i make a group for the first level-palette, then do i make 4 macros (what kind?) to put in that first group and those 4 macros launch 4 different other groups where the palletes come up? thanks for any help! -todd

[gglick]

Create macros that use the Show Palette of Macros action and place them in the group for the first level palette. Here's a threat with an example by @appleianer, who's one of the heaviest sub palette users on this forum:

Best practices for palettes and organizing macros

Over the years, the organization of Groups and macros in Keyboard Maestro Editor, and the organization of my palettes / conflict palettes, has become a bit messy. Too organic. I lose things. So I’ve worked out a set of “principles” to organize things by. Some feedback, suggestions, and approaches used by others are welcome. Here’s what I’m doing: Organizing groups with naming conventions. Groups that become conflict palettes have a prefix conflict so they sort near the top of the Grou…

[toddlerner]

thank you @gglick! i think i got it (do i have it right?)... one issue (screenshot attached): after the first level palette is activated, i'd like to be able to use hotkeys (ideally on-the-fly-assigned conflict palette type keys), do you know of a way i can get that to work? right now i have to click on the palette choices but the second level of palettes gives me conflict palette hotkeys. thanks! -todd

[gglick]

You're welcome, Todd. If you want auto-assigned conflict palette hotkeys for the top level palette, you just need to make a new macro to show that palette as well, rather than from the macro group settings as you currently have it.

[toddlerner]

hi gabe, that worked, thank you for your help!

[S.Hart]

This is similar to a question I asked on the forum a while back:

Macros in palette don't all work when aliased or copied

I have eight palettes each with numerous text-insertion macros for scientific names and locations. Each is set up to hide any other palettes and open one palette. So, for example, I click on Animals and any other palettes showing close and the Animals palette opens. If I then click on Plants, the Animals palette closes and is replaced by Plants. In Photos, this all works perfectly. But if I add the same list of macros to my TextEdit group, only one of the show/hide shortcuts (Location) works. …

I still haven't solved the problem of aliased shortcuts not working.

[Brian_Martin]

After seeing this post I've started to build out some sub-pallets which ave been working great for App Specific groups. I have a Macro Group I use for text expansion and saved snippets so its active in all macro groups.

I created a sub pallet for this, but the issue I have is the Hot key I use to trigger this sub pallet is obviously activate always since its in all groups. Is there a way to trigger the sub pallet to only open when the main pallet itself is actually open?