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The Qrulla window

The connection tree, the toolbar, the tabs and the panels, and how to make the app your own.

#The parts

• Tree (left): your connections and, inside each one, its databases, schemas and objects grouped by kind (tables, views, functions, procedures…). In MongoDB it shows collections and in Redis, keys.
• Toolbar (top): actions for what you picked in the tree, grouped in Connection, Group, Query, Database, Schema, Object, Data, Export, Back up and Monitor.
• Tabs (center): each query, table, diagram or tool opens in its own tab.
• Bottom panel: in an editor, the results and messages of what you run.
• Right panel: the columns and SQL of the object picked in the tree, a table's filter, a row's detail and, in an editor, the query history.

The buttons in the top bar show or hide the tree and the right panel.

#The tree

• Double-click or Enter on a connection connects it; on a table, opens its data.
• Right-click any node for its actions: new query, view data, design, copy, paste, back up, import, compare…
• Ctrl+F with the tree focused searches connections, databases and tables. It searches what is loaded: open a database to search inside it.
• Pick several objects with Ctrl or Shift + click to copy or delete them together.

#The objects panel

When you pick a folder in the tree (for example “Tables”), the center shows its objects as a list with details (rows, size, dates, comment…) or as icons. You can filter them by name, choose which columns to see and select them all with Ctrl+A. Enter opens, Del drops (always with a confirmation) and F5 refreshes.

Rows are shown exactly; while they're counted you'll see “≈” with the server's estimate.

#The tabs

Right-click a tab to close the others, the ones to the left or right, the ones without changes, or all. A tab with an open transaction or unsaved changes asks before closing.

When you open Qrulla again, the home screen offers “Reopen them” if you had tabs open when you closed it.

#Settings

• Light or dark theme: the button in the top bar or “View → Switch light / dark theme”.
• Language: the picker in the top bar. By default, your system's if it's Spanish; otherwise English.
• Zoom the whole app: Ctrl+= zooms in, Ctrl+- zooms out and Ctrl+0 goes back to actual size.
• Size of each part: “File → Preferences…” (Ctrl+,; on a Mac, “Qrulla → Preferences…”) adjusts the text and icons of the toolbar, the tree, the editor and the grid separately. It's remembered on that computer.

Something missing or unclear? Write to support@qrulla.com.