Session KeyEvents in Designer not firing

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Potentially I am missing something here, but I can’t seem to get any of the session key events firing in the designer.

I noticed this when I was trying to send a message to a page, with the following script:

system.perspective.print("arrowRight", sessionId=page.session.props.id, pageId=page.id)
system.perspective.sendMessage("arrowRight", {}, scope="session", sessionId=page.session.props.id)

When I realized, that I can’t seem to get the id from the session, so I tried just printing something in the logs so I could take a deeper look at the available attrs on the page.session object with on the keyDown for the . key:

system.util.getLogger("Session").info("Hello")

Nothing ever shows up in the logs. Any ideas what I am missing? I am wondering if even in preview mode the designer is swallowing up any key press events and not allowing them to make their way to the embedded browser.

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Key Events aren’t expected to work in the designer.
https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Perspective+Session+Event+Scripts#PerspectiveSessionEventScripts-KeyEvents

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Note taken! I did not see that line.

Would likely be nice if there was a small snippet about that in the description here, to avoid any confusion for other developers in the future.

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Even just taking the

Scripts that execute in the Session on a specific keystroke.

and extending it to

Scripts that execute in the Session on a specific keystroke. Key event detection is only active inside of a Perspective session and is not active inside of the Designer.

Would be nice!

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