Environment: Acumatica 2026 R1 (SaaS), Modern UI, screen EP305000 (Employee Time Cards). We’re new to Acumatica and building our first customizations.
We've added a custom column to the Time Entry Summary grid that opens a dialog for the selected row. It works perfectly with a mouse. We cannot find any way to reach or activate it from the keyboard, and we've run out of documented options.
Classic UI has PXDSCallbackCommand.ShortcutKey for binding a key combination to a callback command. What replaces it in the Modern UI? We'd be happy with a screen-level hotkey that acts on the currently selected row — it doesn't have to be cell focus.
What we built
An unbound field on a cache extension — no database column, value computed server-side:
public sealed class EPTimeCardSummaryNoteStatusExt
: PXCacheExtension<TimeCardMaint.EPTimeCardSummaryWithInfo>
{
public abstract class usrNoteStatus : IBqlField { }
[PXString(24, IsUnicode = true)]
[PXUIField(DisplayName = "Daily Notes")]
public string UsrNoteStatus { get; set; }
}It's populated in EPTimeCardSummaryWithInfo_RowSelected and displays values like 1 of 3.
The column is declared in a TypeScript extension of the stock view class:
@gridConfig({
preset: GridPreset.Details,
initNewRow: true,
repaintColumns: true,
defaultAction: "ShowDailyNotesWeek",
})
export class EPTimeCardSummary_BXDailyNotes_BXDailyNotes {
@linkCommand("ShowDailyNotesWeek")
@columnConfig({ type: GridColumnType.HyperLink, allowUpdate: false })
UsrNoteStatus: PXFieldState;
ShowDailyNotesWeek: PXActionState;
}
ShowDailyNotesWeek is a PXAction<TimeCardMaint.EPTimeCardSummaryWithInfo> on a TimeCardMaint graph extension, marked [PXLookupButton], which opens a qp-panel via AskExt().
