# Use Actions to Trigger Keyboard Shortcut?

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/use-actions-to-trigger-keyboard-shortcut/66459
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Tags:** actions
**Created:** [September 23, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/use-actions-to-trigger-keyboard-shortcut/66459 "2023-09-23T14:14:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Ben\_Frederick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/ben_frederick/32/29002_2.png) [@Ben\_Frederick](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Ben_Frederick)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/use-actions-to-trigger-keyboard-shortcut/66459/1 "2023-09-23T14:14:05Z")

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I want to trigger the keyboard shortcut (ctrl + shift + L) on the user’s computer when a button on the app is pushed. Is that possible with custom actions?

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### Author: ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/use-actions-to-trigger-keyboard-shortcut/66459/2 "2023-09-23T14:18:29Z")

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What are you trying to do with that set of keystrokes?

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### Author: ![Ben\_Frederick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/ben_frederick/32/29002_2.png) [@Ben\_Frederick](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Ben_Frederick)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2023, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/use-actions-to-trigger-keyboard-shortcut/66459/3 "2023-09-23T15:07:32Z")

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I use the app to present at conferences and it triggers a new loom recording. I have a list of topics in the app and I want to automatically trigger a loom recording to start when I open the topic.

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### Author: ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/use-actions-to-trigger-keyboard-shortcut/66459/4 "2023-09-23T15:20:42Z")

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Hmm, well I can say for sure that you can’t do that with Glide actions.

I also highly doubt that a browser would allow a website to execute keystroke commands due to the severe security implications of something like that.

My only thought would be if there was some way to trigger loom with a specially formatted url, but I don’t know if they have anything like that.

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### Author: ![Jamessmith0901](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jamessmith0901/32/64248_2.png) [@Jamessmith0901](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jamessmith0901)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2023, 2:07am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/use-actions-to-trigger-keyboard-shortcut/66459/5 "2023-09-29T02:07:14Z")

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You might be able to trigger a loom recording via a specially formatted URL. You can try looking up Loom’s API documentation or reaching out to their support team to see if this is possible.