10 Anypoint Studio Shortcuts You Need To Know

This Article is going to accelerate your Mule development through easy shortcuts

Anypoint Studio is an IDE provided by Mulesoft for building and testing integrations, This blog contains some useful shortcuts and tips to ease your development and play around by creating the custom shortcuts

#Tip 1 Organize in just a click 🥳

ctrl + shift + f

Usage: used to beautify, organize, justify the code, ( works for all, json, xml, java)

Before

After

#Tip 2 Ease your task with Autocomplete 😎

Isn't it boring to type the entire code all by yourself? Thanks to Anypoint Studio's code completion feature, you now have a friend working alongside you.

Works with: JAVA, Dataweave, and pretty much everything

ctrl + space bar

Write a part of code, and then press ctrl + space to see the auto-generated suggestions to proceed further

Usually, the suggestions are auto prompted but now you know the shortcut of how to get it

#Tip 3 Zoom in/Zoom out 🕵

When it comes to Mule flows, you can zoom in and out, but it's not as simple as pinching in and out

Works with mule flows

ctrl +     //zoom in
ctrl -     // zoom out

#Tip 4 Search within Everything 🔍

Everything? yes when I mean everything I literally mean everything

• Search within settings

You might have your favorite settings but now you forgot where it exists?

You might need to change something, but you need to click a lot to find it and change it, you don't know where exactly to change it, well there is one single solution for all these problems.

ctrl + 3

The shortcut will display a magic search box, where you can easily search for your favorite settings

• Search within file

	ctrl + f

• Use this shortcut in code files to search within the code/file
• Use this shortcut in message flow to search within the Mule components Palette

• Search References

ctrl + alt + g

this command can be used to search for all the references,

select a part of text and use this shortcut to search within the references

#Tip 5 Finding its Pair 🕵🏻‍♀️

Finding the other matching socks as well as the matching bracket within large files is difficult, but now you can do it with just a click!

ctrl + shift + p

Set the pointer on the opening bracket and use this shortcut, its going to find out the closing bracket and move the pointer for you.

It works with xml, java in anypoint studio,

#Tip 6 Switching between tabs 🔁

As a mule developer, it’s quite a task to shift between multiple files all the time, a shortcut to easily switch between tabs could be super helpful,

ctrl + page dn    // for next tab
ctrl + page up    // for previous tab

✨in the further points we are going to see how to edit and customize these shortcuts,

#Tip 7 Standard Shortcuts 💥

Below are a few standard daily usage shortcuts,

• To run the mule flow

ctrl + f11 
    (or)
ctrl + alt + x , m

⚠️ if you are using the second command then , first press the ctrl + alt + x and then press ‘m’ key

• To debug the mule flow

ctrl + alt + d , m

⚠️ first press the ctrl + alt + d and then press ‘m’ key to debug the flow

• To run the Munit

ctrl + shift + m , r

• To debug the Munit

ctrl + shift + m , d

• Shift easily between message flow / Global elements / Configuration xml

alt + f7

A box appears like this, by which we can shift easily between them

• New API Specification file

ctrl + alt + m , s

• New Mule configuration file

ctrl + alt + m , n

• New Mule Project

ctrl + alt + m , p

• New RAML API Fragment File

ctrl + alt + m , f

#Tip 8 Shortcuts to OPEN

• Open Flow

There could be multiple flows within the mule project, to open one within all of them, we can just, use this shortcut and search for the flow to find it easily.

ctrl + shift + f

• Open search dialogue

ctrl + h

• Open API Resource

ctrl + shift + p

#Tip 9 Perspective 🕹️

This is one of my favorite commands.

To change the mule perspective lot of times, we choose to reset the perspective, one shortcut to perform it, is

Alt + w , r , r , r

To use the command, press alt + w combinedly and then press ‘r’ key for three times

#Tip 10 Custom shortcuts 🛠️

Is your favorite shortcut not listed? Or do you want to create one for your own use? You can make your own custom shortcuts.

Fortunately, there is a way to accomplish this: Window → Preferences → General → Keys

Search for the one you wish

Now you can change the shortcut the way you wish!!!

Glad you liked all these shortcuts.

Feel free to reach out to me for suggestions/ comments :

linkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-jani

Mail: [email protected]