9. Anatella for the Expert Users > 9.1. Developing new Script-Based Anatella Actions > 9.1.2. How to edit the Script-code of an Action?

The easiest way to develop new Script-based Anatella Actions is to edit & modify an existing one. Here are the pre-existing templates that are a good “starting points” to create a new Action coded in Javascript, R or Python:

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Let’s drop into our Anatella Graph one of these “Templates”. Double-click the Action (to edit its properties) and Switch to expert user mode (i.e. Click the button in the main toolbar of the application). You should now have something like:

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Let’s click on the “code” tab! You should now have:

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You can directly edit and tweak the code of the action in the “code” tab and press F5 to execute it! To be comfortable when editing the code, you have access to:

1.A circular context menu (accessible with a right-mouse-click) that offers you the classical text-edition-functionalities: copy, cut, paste,…

2.CTRL+Wheel: Increase/decrease the font size.

3.The following standard shortcuts are available while editing your code:

Keypresses	Action
Backspace	Deletes the character to the left of the cursor.
Delete	Deletes the character to the right of the cursor.
Ctrl+C	Copy the selected text to the clipboard.
Ctrl+F F3	Finds a word into the code. Press F3 to repeat the last search.
Ctrl+H F2	Finds & Replaces a word into the code. Press F2 to repeat the last replacement.
Ctrl+Insert	Copy the selected text to the clipboard.
Ctrl+K	Deletes to the end of the line.
Ctrl+V	Pastes the clipboard text into text edit.
Shift+Insert	Pastes the clipboard text into text edit.
Ctrl+X	Deletes the selected text and copies it to the clipboard.
Shift+Delete	Deletes the selected text and copies it to the clipboard.
Ctrl+Z	Undoes the last operation.
Ctrl+Y	Redoes the last operation.
Left	Moves the cursor one character to the left.
Ctrl+Left	Moves the cursor one word to the left.
Right	Moves the cursor one character to the right.
Ctrl+Right	Moves the cursor one word to the right.
Up	Moves the cursor one line up.
Down	Moves the cursor one line down.
PageUp	Moves the cursor one page up.
PageDown	Moves the cursor one page down.
Home	Moves the cursor to the beginning of the line.
Ctrl+Home	Moves the cursor to the beginning of the text.
End	Moves the cursor to the end of the line.
Ctrl+End	Moves the cursor to the end of the text.
Alt+Wheel	Scrolls the page horizontally (the Wheel is the mouse wheel).
Ctrl+Wheel	Increase/decrease the font size