Quick view

Quick view is a small eye that appears on each row of the entity pickers — the dropdowns you use to choose an asset, a person, a model, an application or a location while assigning, granting access or linking a record. The same eye also appears in the multi-select filters — for example when you filter the knowledge base by the specific assets or applications an article relates to. It opens a generous preview of that row without leaving what you are doing, so you can tell two similar-looking entries apart before you pick one.

It exists because a picker row is necessarily terse: an asset shows as a name, a person as “Juan D.”, a model as “Dell Latitude”. When two rows look alike — two laptops with the same model, two people with the same first name — the eye lets you confirm which is which in place.

Opening a preview

Hover the mouse over a row and the eye appears at its right edge. There are two ways to use it:

• Hover the eye for a moment and a preview opens beside the row. Move away and it closes on its own. This is the quick “let me just check” glance.
• Click the eye to pin the preview open. A pinned preview stays put until you dismiss it, and it adds an “Open full record” link.

Only one preview is open at a time — opening another row’s eye closes the previous one.

Using the keyboard

• Move through the list with the ↑ / ↓ arrows. The eye is shown on the highlighted row, so you can see at a glance which rows have a preview.
• Press Alt + Enter to open and pin the preview of the highlighted row — exactly as if you had clicked its eye. A small Alt ↵ hint at the bottom of the list is there as a reminder.
• Press Esc to close the preview and return to the list, right where you were, so you can keep arrowing.

Typing to filter, the ↑ / ↓ arrows and Enter to choose a row all keep working exactly as before — Alt + Enter is the only shortcut added, and it never selects the row.

What a preview shows

The preview is tailored to the kind of record:

• Asset — serial and asset tag, model (manufacturer + name), category, location and its status.
• Person — email, role, username, file number, manager and how many assets and app accesses they currently hold, with their initials avatar.
• Model — manufacturer, SKU and description.
• Application — vendor, web address and description.
• Location — type, address, floor and description.

Empty values are simply left out, so the preview never shows a blank label.

Opening the full record

When a preview is pinned and the record has its own detail page, an “Open full record” link appears at the bottom. It opens that record’s page in a new tab, so your current flow — the form you were filling in — is never interrupted. Asset models and similar records that have no standalone page don’t show the link.

What it never shows

Quick view reuses information the picker has already loaded, so opening a preview costs no extra wait and no extra request. It is also deliberately limited:

• Secrets are never shown. A preview only ever references a secret by name, never its value.
• An application’s web address is shown as plain text, and only when it is a safe address — an unsafe or scripted link is dropped rather than rendered.

Because the preview reflects the picker’s summary of a record, a few detail-only fields (for example an asset’s full technical specs) aren’t shown there — use Open full record to see everything.