Can you assign a keyboard shortcut to your own sub-role?

I think that a to-do marker is probably a better solution in this case, but I couldn't help replying to the original question "can you assign a shortcut to your own sub-role", anyway... 😉

The answer, unsurprisingly, is... YES (if you choose the name of your sub-role carefully enough - basically you don't want it to be something that appears in some FCP X menu elsewhere).

OS X allows you to add a keyboard shortcut to any menu choice in any application. I find this one a very neat feature, and it has been there since the beginning (I believe it may have been in the "classic" Mac OS, as well - boy, I am feeling old saying that!).

You probably can take it from here without further help, but for the sake of completeness, and because this is extremely useful elsewhere and for other forum members, I will summarize the process.

Say your role is called "My Role". System Preferences->Keyboard->Shortcuts.

Click "Application Shortcuts", then click the "+" button to add a new one. Make sure you type the text of the menu you want EXACTLY as it appears in the application. That is all there is to it. Oh... and by the way, this is the way to restore the shortcut Cmd-Shift-S to be "Save As...", as it should (just type it, and choose "All Applications").

And you don't even have to quit and restart the application for the shortcut to appear!