Shortcuts for navigating the main window
You do most of your data mining work in the main window of IBM® SPSS® Modeler. The main area is called the stream canvas and is used to build and run data streams. The bottom part of the window contains the node palettes, which contain all available nodes. The palettes are organized on tabs corresponding to the type of data mining operation for each group of nodes. For example, nodes used to bring data into IBM SPSS Modeler are grouped on the Sources tab, and nodes used to derive, filter, or type fields are grouped on the Field Ops tab (short for Field Operations).
The right side of the window contains several tools for managing streams, output, and projects. The top half on the right contains the managers and has three tabs that are used to manage streams, output, and generated models. You can access these objects by selecting the tab and an object from the list. The bottom half on the right contains the project pane, which allows you to organize your work into projects. There are two tabs in this area reflecting two different views of a project. The Classes view sorts project objects by type, while the CRISP-DM view sorts objects by the relevant data mining phase, such as Data Preparation or Modeling. These various aspects of the IBM SPSS Modeler window are discussed throughout the Help system and User's Guide.
Following is a table of shortcuts used to move within the main IBM SPSS Modeler window and build streams. Shortcuts for dialog boxes and output are listed in the topics that follow. Note that these shortcut keys are available only from the main window.
| Shortcut Key | Function |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+F5 | Moves focus to the node palettes. |
| Ctrl+F6 | Moves focus to the stream canvas. |
| Ctrl+F7 | Moves focus to the managers pane. |
| Ctrl+F8 | Moves focus to the project pane. |
| Shortcut Key | Function |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+N | Creates a new blank stream canvas. |
| Ctrl+O | Displays the Open dialog box, from where you can select and open an existing stream. |
| Ctrl+number keys | Moves focus to the corresponding tab on a window or pane. For example, within a tabbed pane or window, Ctrl+1 moves to the first tab starting from the left, Ctrl+2 to the second, etc. |
| Ctrl+Down Arrow | Used in the node palette to move focus from a palette tab to the first node under that tab. |
| Ctrl+Up Arrow | Used in the node palette to move focus from a node to its palette tab. |
| Enter | When a node is selected in the node palette (including refined models in the generated models palette), this keystroke adds the node to the stream canvas. Pressing Enter when a node is already selected on the canvas opens the dialog box for that node. |
| Ctrl+Enter | When a node is selected in the palette, adds that node to the stream canvas without selecting it, and moves focus to the first node in the palette. |
| Alt+Enter | When a node is selected in the palette, adds that node to the stream canvas and selects it, while moving focus to the first node in the palette. |
| Shift+Spacebar | When a node or comment has focus in the palette, toggles between selecting and deselecting that node or comment. If any other nodes or comments are also selected, this causes them to be deselected. |
| Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar | When a node or comment has focus in the stream, or a node or comment has focus on the palette, toggles between selecting and deselecting the node or comment. This does not affect any other selected nodes or comments. |
| Left/Right Arrow | If the stream canvas has focus, moves the entire stream horizontally on the screen. If a palette tab has focus, cycles between tabs. If a palette node has focus, moves between nodes in the palette. |
| Up/Down Arrow | If the stream canvas has focus, moves the entire stream vertically on the screen. If a palette node has focus, moves between nodes in the palette. If a subpalette has focus, moves between other subpalettes for this palette tab. |
| Alt+Left/Right Arrow | Moves selected nodes and comments on the stream canvas horizontally in the direction of the arrow key. |
| Alt+Up/Down Arrow | Moves selected nodes and comments on the stream canvas vertically in the direction of the arrow key. |
| Ctrl+A | Selects all nodes in a stream. |
| Ctrl+Q | When a node has focus, selects it and all nodes downstream, and deselects all nodes upstream. |
| Ctrl+W | When a selected node has focus, deselects it and all selected nodes downstream. |
| Ctrl+Alt+D | Duplicates a selected node. |
| Ctrl+Alt+L | When a model nugget is selected in the stream, opens an Insert dialog box to enable you to
load a saved model from a .nod file into the stream. |
| Ctrl+Alt+R | Displays the Annotations tab for a selected node, enabling you to rename the node. |
| Ctrl+Alt+U | Creates a User Input source node. |
| Ctrl+Alt+C | Toggles the cache for a node on or off. |
| Ctrl+Alt+F | Flushes the cache for a node. |
| Tab | On the stream canvas, cycles through all the source nodes and comments in the current stream. On a node palette, moves between nodes in the palette. On a selected subpalette, moves to the first node in the subpalette. |
| Shift+Tab | Performs the same operation as Tab but in reverse order. |
| Ctrl+Tab | With focus on the managers pane or project pane, moves focus to the stream canvas. With focus on a node palette, moves focus between a node and its palette tab. |
| Any alphabetic key | With focus on a node in the current stream, gives focus and cycles to the next node whose name starts with the key pressed. |
| F1 | Opens the Help system at a topic relevant to the focus. |
| F2 | Starts the connection process for a node selected in the canvas. Use the Tab key to move to the required node on the canvas, and press Shift+Spacebar to finish the connection. |
| F3 | Deletes all connections for the selected node on the canvas. |
| F6 | Moves focus between the managers pane, project pane and node palettes. |
| F10 | Opens the File menu. |
| Shift+F10 | Opens the pop-up menu for the node or stream. |
| Delete | Deletes a selected node from the canvas. |
| Esc | Closes a pop-up menu or dialog box. |
| Ctrl+Alt+X | Expands a SuperNode. |
| Ctrl+Alt+Z | Zooms in on a SuperNode. |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Z | Zooms out of a SuperNode. |
| Ctrl+E | With focus in the stream canvas, this runs the current stream. |
A number of standard shortcut keys are also used in IBM SPSS Modeler, such as Ctrl+C to copy. See the topic Using shortcut keys for more information.