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Keyboard shortcut keys

Use the keyboard to access all of the functions of the system administration clients.

In general, keyboard access conforms to standard Microsoft Windows guidelines. Mnemonics for functions such as menu items are underlined; you can access such functions by holding down the Alt key and pressing the underlined letter key. For example, you can open the File menu from the keyboard by holding down the Alt key and pressing F.

Keyboard access differs from standard Microsoft Windows guidelines in the following ways:

Access keys, tabbing, and tables
Access keys are provided only for buttons and menu items. Input components, like list boxes and combo boxes, have labels that allow you to access them and provide your input. Press Tab to reach fields that do not have a shortcut key combination.

Press the Tab key to move the cursor into a table. Press the Tab key again to move the cursor to the next cell within a table. To move out of the table to the next field, hold down the Ctrl key and press Tab. When the cursor is within a table, pressing Enter is not equivalent to clicking OK to close the window; you must move out of the table first.

If you want to edit a cell in a table that contains a combo box, press F2, use the down or up arrow key to move to an item, and press Enter to select it.

Combo boxes
Use the up and down arrow keys to move to an item, then press Enter to select it.
Menus
Press Alt and then Spacebar to open the Program menu from the icon on the title bar of the System Administration Client window. When this menu is open, pressing the Alt key closes the menu.

Pressing Shift+F10 does not open pop-up menus. You can access pop-up menu functions from the Selected menu.

Tree views
You can expand or collapse a tree by pressing Enter or by using the Left and Right Arrow keys. Pressing the Asterisk (*) does not expand a tree selection. Pressing the Plus key or Minus key on the numeric key pad does not expand or collapse the tree. Typing characters or pressing Backspace while in the tree does not select an item.

If you have Java™ 2 Software Development Kit 1.4 on your system, then you can press a letter key and the next item in the tree that begins with that character is selected.

List boxes, check boxes, and radio buttons
In a list box, press the Down Arrow and Up Arrow keys to select an item. To select multiple sequential items, hold down the Shift key while pressing the Down or Up Arrow key.

If you have Java 2 Software Development Kit 1.4 on your system, you can press a letter key to select items within a list box, combination box, or table.

Within list boxes, the following actions have no effect:

  • Pressing the Ctrl key with Page Up, Page Down, Home, or End
  • Pressing a letter key (unless you have JRE 1.4 installed)
  • Pressing Shift+F8

You can select individual radio buttons by pressing the Tab key and then the Spacebar, or by using the access keys. Arrow keys do not select radio buttons within a group.

Notebook tabs
Access keys are not provided for notebook tabs. Move the focus to a page tab using the Right and Left Arrow keys or the Tab key, or by pressing Ctrl+Page Down or Ctrl+Page Up.
Additional keystrokes
The following keys have no effect on text fields:
  • Alt+Backspace
  • Ctrl+Z
  • Shift+Delete


Last updated: June 2015
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