Set top most results- prompt user for starting character instead

[fdawans]

Hello,

How can I assign, for example, typing the letter 'e' to Excel as topmost? In this case, I did it by manually navigating all the results and the setting as topmost in query. However, for some files, the desired program is not in the results, so I cannot set it as top most.

Is there a file somewhere that I can edit ?

Thank you,

[jjw24]

So that I am clear what you mean, you know how to set a result as topmost via the context menu, but there are some programs that you can't find, is this what you mean?

If so what programs can't you find?

[Zeroto521]

I usually do this.

and if it is an application, I also would add it to the window start menu and reindex again, it would come.

[fdawans]

@jjw24 Yes, some programs that I cannot find. Search is mixed up in the results with the applications. Maybe I can deactivate search to set up the topmost then reactivate. Also I can put a lower the priority for search.

@Zeroto521 I was also using that trick before, I guess I forgot about it.. Thanks! Not straightforward but it worked, yes.

It could be easier to be able to edit a file and to put the path of the application next to a hotkey.

[jjw24]

Can you find those programs if you type in the full name?

[fdawans]

Yes, that works, but then how do I assign a single key to it?

[jjw24]

Oh ok, so the scenario here is you want to assign topmost to a result with a single letter, e.g. assign topmost to 'settings' when query 's', but problem is you are limited to locating that result amongst lots of results that come back with 's'

[jjw24]

Maybe when setting a result as topmost, it will prompt you starting with how many characters from the title of the result should show up as topmost. This way you can do a full/partial text search for the result and still be able to assign a single character

[fdawans]

Exactly, results are limited so I cannot find the right app. I have (almost) all my apps that are mapped to a single key, it's very useful.

[deefrawley]

You can set this up in the Plugin Runner plugin. See below, with that I type r tab in Flow and it launches the Tablacus application for me. If you choose Excel and give it the shortcut of 'e' you can start excel with r e in Flow

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