I often use the ctrl+space keyboard shortcut to insert a node quickly. Fairly frequently instead of opening the dialog, it just semi-deselects the node, leaving a dotted-line selection box around it. Effectively it is unselected.
In 2016, this was posted Quick Node Insertion intermittently not working … and since it’s still here I’m assuming it hasn’t been fixed. So I’m really hoping there’s a workaround, or someone has figured out what causes it. I am on a slightly older version - KNIME 4.5.2.
I’m afraid it doesn’t look like we have been able to reliably reproduce and investigate the issue. Our development efforts have also shifted, as we are working on a new UI with KNIME 5 (KNIME Analytics Platform Version 5 | KNIME).
I believe we won’t be able to progress here without being able to reliably reproduce the issue.
Understandable… thanks for getting back to me on this. If I figure out how to reproduce before upgrading I will certainly let you know. Thanks for a great product!