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Search jobs and use the command palette

Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K) or click the search box to find any active job by name, job number, customer or address, and to jump to Home, Chat, Jobs, Timeline, a job's tabs or Settings.

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The search box in the top bar does two jobs. It finds any active job, and it runs commands that move you around Wave. It is the fastest way to get somewhere without clicking through menus.

Open it

  • Click Search jobs or commands… in the top bar.
  • Or press ⌘K (Ctrl+K) from anywhere in the app.

On a phone, tap the search bar at the top of the screen.

Find a job

Type part of the job name, the job number, the customer's name or the property address. Matching jobs appear under Jobs, each with its job number and current stage, for example #142 · Estimating. Pick one to open it.

  • Partial words work. Typing the first few letters of a street name finds jobs on that street.
  • Capitalization doesn't matter.
  • If you type several words, a job has to match all of them.

Search covers active jobs. Cancelled jobs don't appear, so to find one, open the Jobs board and filter to Cancelled. See The Jobs board.

Search also looks at the page you are on. Headings that match show under This page, and picking one scrolls you there.

Use search when you know something specific about one job. Use the Jobs board when you want to browse. If you only remember a detail of an earlier job, ask Wave in chat, for example "What did we scope on the Garza job?" See Ask Wave about past jobs.

Run a command

With the box empty, the palette lists what you can do. Start typing to filter the list, use the arrow keys to move, and press Enter to run the highlighted command. Esc closes the palette.

Navigation

  • Go to Home, Go to Chat, Go to Jobs, Go to Timeline

Inside a job

  • Open Wave chat (⌘1), Open Overview (⌘2), Open Notes (⌘3)

On the Estimates tab, Open Wave chat takes you to Overview, where the job's own conversation is.

Outside a job

  • Go to chat puts your cursor in the Wave box on Home, Jobs or Timeline.

Settings

  • Open Preferences, Open Account settings, Open Company settings and Open Pricing settings
  • Admins also see Open Export settings, Open Team settings and Open Billing
  • Open Guidelines and Open Integrations appear when your plan and role include them

View

  • Switch to dark mode, or Switch to light mode

Recent commands come first

The palette remembers the last few commands you ran and lists them at the top under Recent when you open it. A repeat action becomes two keystrokes: ⌘K, then Enter.

Learn the shortcuts as you go

Commands that have a keyboard shortcut show it next to the command name, so next time you can skip the palette.

For the full list, press ⌘? (Ctrl+?) or ⌘/ (Ctrl+/) to open the shortcuts overlay. On a job's Estimates tab, the overlay also lists the line-item keys, like R and Shift+R to jump between rooms. Those keys work directly on the estimate. See Keyboard shortcuts.

Where other actions live

Some actions are not in the palette:

  • Export: click Export on the Estimates tab or the Export chip on any job tab, or ask Wave to export. See Export reports.
  • Lock, Duplicate, Estimate history and Delete: open the Job actions (⋮) menu in the job header.
  • Undo and redo: use the arrows in the job header on desktop, or press ⌘Z and ⇧⌘Z.
  • Job stage: change it from the job's status control, or drag the card on the Jobs board.

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