Navigating with Keyboard Shortcuts

This section describes how to navigate through and view information in the various SAP Sourcing modules.

You can also use keyboard shortcuts to move UI elements from one location to another. For information about how to drag and drop UI elements, either by using the mouse or by using keyboard shortcuts, see Optimizing Your Display Experience.

Using Keyboard Shortcuts to Move Around Pages

How Pages Are Organized

The controls on a Sourcing page are generally organized into sections. Focus areas, or sections that can receive focus include the following:

UI toolbars and menu bars such as the top level navigation toolbar, a document toolbar, a collection list toolbar, and query toolbars
Workbench channels
Breadcrumbs lists
Form panes
Subcategories in the Setup page
Tab controls

You can use keyboard shortcuts to move focus from between focus areas, and to select individual controls within the current focus area.

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When you give focus to a control, you can view its tooltip by typing CTRL-Shift-Space.

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Using Keyboard Shortcuts to Navigate to a Section of the Page

Use the following keyboard shortcuts to move focus from one focus area to another.

Keyboard Shortcut	Effect
`CTRL-F6`	Moves focus to the next focus area on the page.
`CTRL-Shift-F6`	Moves focus to the previous focus area on the page.

Note Note

To use these shortcuts on a Macintosh computer, you may need to navigate to System Preferences Keyboard and select Use F1 F2 keys etc as standard function keys.

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Note Note

Navigating forward past the final focus area on your screen returns focus to the first focus area. Similarly, navigating backward from the first focus area moves focus to the last focus area.

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Using Keyboard Shortcuts to Select a Particular Control Within a Section

Use the following keyboard shortcuts to move the focus from one control to another within a particular focus area.

Like focus areas, controls within a focus area are organized primarily from left to right and secondarily from top to bottom. Moving forward from the last control in a focus area moves focus to the first focusable item in the focus area. Moving backward from the first focusable item in the focus area moves focus to the last focusable item.

Keyboard Shortcut	Effect
`CTRL-Shift-1`	Moves focus backward within a toolbar to the previous available toolbar action.
`CTRL-Shift-2`	Moves focus forward within a toolbar to the next available toobar action.
`CTRL-Shift-3`	Moves focus within a toolbar to the child submenu.
`CTRL-Shift-4`	Moves focus within a toolbar to to the parent toolbar action.
`Tab`	Moves focus to the next focusable item in the current focus area.
`Shift-Tab`	Moves focus to the previous focusable item in the current focus area.
`Enter`	Chooses the item that currently has focus.
`CTRL-Shift-B`	Navigates one page backward in a set of breadcrumbs.
`CTRL-Shift-F11`	Toggles full-screen mode on or off. Note To use this shortcut on a Macintosh computer, you may need to navigate to System Preferences Keyboard and select Use F1 F2 keys etc as standard function keys. End of the note.
`C`	When a date-time picker has focus, this shortcut navigates to the current date.
`Space`	If a checkbox has focus, you can use the `Space` key to check or uncheck it.

Using Keyboard Shortcuts in a List

You can use a keyboard shortcut to perform specific actions in a list.

Keyboard shortcuts are as follows:

Keyboard Shortcut	Effect
`CTRL-Shift-J`	For Next. Displays the next page of the list.
`CTRL-Shift-P`	For Previous. Displays the previous page of the list.
`CTRL-Shift-F`	Displays the first page in the list.
`CTRL-Shift-L`	Displays the last page in the list.

Using Keyboard Shortcuts for a Search

The following keyboard commands can be used when performing a search:

Keyboard Shortcut	Effect
`CTRL-Shift-G`	For Find Next. Displays the next instance of the value in the Find field.
`CTRL-Shift-H`	For Hide Search. Hides the query filter on any advanced search page.
`CTRL-Shift-M`	For Modify Search. Expands the query filter on any advanced search page.

Using Keyboard Shortcuts to Manipulate Business Documents

The following keyboard shortcuts can be used to manipulate any business document, for example a Project, RFx, or Contract document, that supports the function the keyboard shortcut performs:

Example Example

If a business document can be saved and closed by clicking a single button, it can also be saved and closed by typing CTRL-Shift-D. However, some business documents will not support all of the listed functions. A keyboard shortcut works only in a document that supports its function.

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Keyboard Shortcut	Effect
`CTRL-Shift-S`	Saves the document.
`CTRL-Shift-D`	Saves and closes the document.
`CTRL-Shift-A`	Saves the document and creates a new one.
`CTRL-Shift-Z`	Reverts all changes since the most recent save.

Prerequisites

To use keyboard shortcuts in the Safari 4 or Safari 5 browsers, you must first enable tabbing. To enable tabbing in Safari 4 or Safari 5, follow these steps:

Choose Preferences Advanced .
Select the Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage checkbox.