Keyboard shortcuts for Rational Team Concert

Rational Team Concert™ includes a variety of keyboard shortcuts in addition to standard Windows and Eclipse keyboard navigation.

This product uses standard Microsoft Windows navigation keys and standard Eclipse navigation keys. See Window > Preferences > General > Keys for all options. You can use the interface to customize existing keyboard shortcuts or create new shortcuts.

The following table contains keyboard shortcuts that are specific to Rational Team Concert and Jazz™ source control.
Table 1. Rational Team Concert Eclipse client keyboard shortcuts
Key combination Context Function
Ctrl+Shift+F12 Jazz source control Accept
Ctrl+Shift+F9 Jazz source control Check-In
Ctrl+Shift+F11 Jazz source control Deliver
Ctrl+Shift+F10 Jazz source control Show History
F4 My Work View Show Details
Shift+F4 My Work View Show News
Alt+Right Arrow My Work View Show Work Time
F4 Pending Changes view Zoom In / Out
Alt+Down Arrow Plan Editor: Organizing Current Work Move work item down in list
Alt+Up Arrow Plan Editor: Organizing Current Work Move work item up in list
Shift+Ctrl+Enter Plans Creates a new child work item (only in tree view)
Up or Down Arrow Plans Navigate between work items
Ctrl+R Work Item Queries Run Query
Ctrl+Shift+A Editing Styled Text Insert Work Item link
Ctrl+Shift+Q Editing Styled Text Quick Query
Ctrl+Alt+W In Windows Open Work Item
Enter Quick Search Trim Quick Search
Ctrl+Shift+C Feeds Mark all read
Space Feeds Mark read
Ctrl+R Feeds Reload all feeds
Table 2. Rational Team Concert web client keyboard shortcuts
Key combination Context Function
Ctrl+Left arrow Plans, queries, work items: when the parent row is highlighted and there are children Expand parent menu item to show child items
Ctrl+Right arrow Plans, queries, work items: when the parent row is highlighted and there are children Collapse parent menu item to hide child items
Ctrl++ Any browser window Increase font size
Ctrl+- Any browser window Decrease font size
Ctrl+S Plans Saves the plan
Ctrl+Enter Plans Creates a new work item
Shift+Ctrl+Enter Plans Creates a new child work item (only in tree view)
Up or Down Arrow Plans Navigate between work items. Navigate through various areas (Browse owner, Browse iteration, Add columns)
Tab Plans Navigate through plan view configuration
Esc Plans Restore focus
Ctrl+Shift+R Plans Refreshes the plan
Ctrl+Z Rich text editor Undo
Ctrl+Y Rich text editor Redo
Ctrl+B Rich text editor Bold text
Ctrl+I Rich text editor Italic text
Ctrl+L Rich text editor Add an external link
Ctrl+E Rich text editor Add a work item link
Ctrl+U Rich text editor Add a user link
Ctrl+Space Rich text editor Open context assist (when available)
Note: For Chinese, Japanese (Linux), and Korean (Linux), use Alt+/ .
Alt+Click Rich text editor Click the link without following the link
Alt+Click Plan editor tree view Select a parent work item and all child work items in its sub-tree
Note: In the dashboard view, the cloud view presentation of a statistics widget can be read by a screenreader, but the other presentations do not give focus to entries in the widget.

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