Using of the keyboard
After launching the application, the main menu (ribbon) appears in the upper corner of the screen. Operating the system with the use of shortcuts can be initiated by pressing the left <Alt> key. After pressing that key, in the menu, you will see the letters symbolizing the shortcuts to each of the tab elements. As a rule, it has been applied that the shortcuts refer to the first letters of the names of the menus, objects, etc. If, in a given context, there is more than one name beginning with the same letter, such shortcuts are then composed of two letters, which are two subsequent letters of a name.
Pressing a proper letter on the keyboard and holding the button at the same time opens particular tabs.
- X – allows changing a center
- AP – launches the application configuration window
- M – launches the main menu of the system (the list of directories)
- SA – launches the menu Sales
- P – launches the menu Purchase
- W – launches the menu Warehouse
- CR – launches the menu CRM
- FI – launches the menu Finances
- AC – launches the menu Accounting
- FX – launches the menu Fixed Assets
- R – launches the menu Reporting
- BS – launches the menu Business Scorecard
- BU – launches the menu Budgeting
- AL – launches the menu Allocation
- SU – launches the menu Subsidiaries
- AD – launches the menu Add-ons
- CO – launches the menu Configuration
With the use of the above-presented shortcuts, it is possible to navigate through all the elements available in the system.
If the <Alt> key is pressed from the level of a list or form, the system will display shortcuts applicable to buttons active in the context of that list or form.
To go to the lower level of keyboard shortcuts, it is necessary to press a button applicable to a given context. In a situation presented in the above image, selecting button <I> (items) will open the context of the items of the opened list.
Additionally, the user can move along the ribbon with the use of the key <Alt> and arrows on the keyboard. <Enter> or <Spacebar> select a given button.
On most of the list it is possible to use standard buttons, such as: <Insert> (adds a new row), <Delete> (removes a selected row), <Tab> (moves on to the next field), and <Enter> (accepts entered values).
Also with the use of the button <Insert>, it is possible to add new item to documents, regardless of the cursor’s location, when the tab Elemetnts is active.
In the system, it is possible to define individual shortcuts which then can be used for editing the content of particular fields or transferring the context to lists. Such combinations of shortcuts can be defined separately for particular user groups as well as for individual users. Detailed description of this functionality can be found in article Interface item management.
Predefined shortcuts
In the system, there are also other predefined shortcuts available. They are dedicated to particular behaviors of the system for some forms:
- <Alt> + <F4> – asks whether to close the system
- <Ctrl> + <F> – opens a search engine window
- <Alt> + <downwards arrow> – expands a list of values
- <Alt> + <upwards arrow> – collapses a list of available values
- <F5> – refreshes a list
- <Insert> – adds an item
- <Esc> – closes an active window
Below are the following shortcuts which are, in turn, available in the row editing mode (edit in place):
- <Insert> – adds an item
- <Ctrl> + <upwards arrow> – increases value in the field Quantity in the edited row
- <Ctrl> + <downwards arrow> – decreases value in the field Quantity in the edited row
- <Upwards arrow> – jumps to an upper row
- <Downwards arrow> – jumps to a lower row
- <Enter> – activates a cell in the mode of editing (clicking enter will enable edition of, e.g. a unit of measure cell when being highlighted on a list of SI items)
- <Delete> – removes a row in the row editing mode
- <Rightwards arrow>/<Leftwards arrow> – enables navigation to cells of a given row, as in case of using <Tab> and <Shift> + <Tab> keys
- <Ctrl> + <Shift> + <C> – copies selected objects together with headers