OpenEvSys

Keyboard Shortcuts


OpenEvSys and your Internet browser have some keyboard shortcuts that can help you get around OpenEvSys, and perform common tasks more quickly.

 OpenEvSys Shortcuts

The following are programmed into OpenEvSys, and won't work on other websites.

Pressing the following keys all at once will take you to different areas of OpenEvSys:

Key Combination     What happens
Alt + Shift + e     Changes page to Events browser
Alt + Shift + p     Changes page to Persons browser
Alt + Shift + d     Changes page to Document browser
Alt + Shift + s     Changes page to Analysis main screen
Alt + Shift + a     Changes page to Admin main screen


Once you have chosen a main area of OpenEvSys, the following key combinations will perform common tasks:

Key Combination     What happens
Alt + Shift + b     Browses records in that area of OpenEvSys
Alt + Shift + v     Views the last viewed records in that area
Alt + Shift + n     Create a new record of that type (eg. when in Event, create a new Event)


Warnings about OpenEvSys Keyboard Shortcuts

    * If you press any Keyboard Shortcut when you are editing a record, you will lose whatever changes you have made to that record.
    * Pressing "Alt + Shift" alone on a computer running Microsoft Windows will change the input language, if you have more than one set up.

Internet Browser Shortcuts


The following keyboard shortcuts work on most Internet browsers on most webpages, and can help you get around in OpenEvSys:


Key combination    What happens
Alt + left cursor     Browse back to the previous page
Alt + right cursor     Browse forward to a previously visited page
Tab key     Takes you to the next screen element, which could be an input field, a dropdown menu or a hyperlink. Shift + Tab key does the reverse, and moves you back to the previous screen element.
Enter     If in an input field, Enter submits the form. If on a link, Enter selects that link
Space bar     Where nothing is select, pressing Space moves the current page downwards, "over the fold" (i.e. the bits you can't yet see). Shift + Space does the reverse, and moves the page back up.
Ctrl + +     Makes the text of the website bigger. Pressing this combination repeatedly will keep increasing the text size.
Ctrl + -     Make the text of the website smaller. Pressing this combination repeatedly will keep decreating the text size.
Ctrl + 0     Resets the text size to the website's defaults.


More information

    * Full list of keyboard shortcuts for Mozilla Firefox.
    * Full list of keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Internet Explorer