Account Context Switcher

At my previous job, our cloud infrastructure portal had an "Account Hierarchy" feature, where parent accounts could create sub-accounts. Our support and managed services teams would need to quickly switch between account contexts to help support customers, so our team developed this solution for an account context switcher.

We wired up keyboard shortcuts to open the account switcher, which would then automatically place focus on the input filter. Users could quickly type in the name of the account, use the up and down arrow keys to navigate the list, hit the enter key to select an account, and the esc would close the menu.

This pattern is documented here:
http://assets.ctl.io/cyclops/1.8.6/navigation.html#accountSwitcher

An example of it is here:
http://assets.ctl.io/cyclops/1.8.6/starterPages/basic.html

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