Pressing the palette button or the group button below the search bar

[RazMastero]

Today, I stumbled upon a useful feature. If you press the palette button or the group button below the search bar, it will redirect you directly to the desired palette or group. This is a great time-saver!

[kevinb]

@RazMastero

If you press the palette button or the group button below the search bar,

That’s one of “Safari Photos Palette Creat Image” in your image? I see no such buttons in the KM Editor.

@RazMastero

it will redirect you directly to the desired palette or group

How is the “desired palette or group” known without a search term? Or is this a separate section from Search? Is this feature dependent upon a particular way of launching macros? I am lost!

[Nige_S]

@kevinb

Is this feature dependent upon a particular way of launching macros? I am lost!

I think you know about this feature, @kevinb, but aren't connecting it to OP's description. And for those who may have missed it:

In the Editor...

If you have a Smart Group selected in the "Groups" column and then select a macro in the "Macros" column, the name of the Macro Group containing that macro will appear at the top-corner of the macro's "Edit" pane -- clicking on that name will select the macro's Macro Group in the "Group" column (the macro itself remains selected).

Yes, the "button" is the text “Safari Photos Palette Creat Image” in OP's image.

I have no idea how that relates to palettes, though. @RazMastero?

[RazMastero]

This only works when you are in “All Macros.”
If you are already inside a specific macro group, you won’t see this behavior.

When you switch to All Macros and click on any macro, Keyboard Maestro shows a small line of text just under the search bar that tells you which group that macro actually belongs to. That text is clickable. Clicking it instantly takes you to the macro’s original group.

• You must be in All Macros first

• Select a macro

• Click the small group name under the search bar

• Keyboard Maestro jumps to where that macro really lives

Think of All Macros as a global map, and that clickable text as a “teleport to home folder” button.

[kevinb]

@Nige_S

I think you know about this feature, @kevinb, but aren't connecting it to OP's description.

Thanks, yes, that was correct.

@RazMastero

This only works when you are in “All Macros.”
If you are already inside a specific macro group, you won’t see this behavior.

That’s unless, as @Nige_S says, it’s another smart group. All macros is itself a smart group.