Access Keys & Shortcuts

• The access key on your machine may be ‘alt’. On a Mac
  it’s ‘ctrl’.
• Hover over the link or button and a tooltip will popup with the
  access key.
• The most useful access keys are for screen navigation, see below.
  

Global keys that are always available

General

t   Scroll to top of page
b   Scroll to bottom of page
/   Jump to top of Silva (Silva icon)
?   See list of access keys and shortcuts

Changing screens with the tabs

The tabs have numbered access keys, starting from one going up to five. You can navigate horizontally across an item’s screens by using alt-1, alt-2, and so forth.

Each tab has a toplink, the tall tree on the left side. It takes you to the top of the current publication, within the same screen, or ‘vein’  of the content tree.  If you are in the properties screen, the toplink takes you up to the properties screen of the current publication. The access key is the shift character of the corresponding number (on the English keyboard, sorry if you have an international one). Thus alt-!, alt-@, alt-#, alt-$, and alt-% (note that the characters resemble the number).

On the right of each tab is an uplink, a small tree that takes you up one level in the same vein. The access keys for the uplinks are the remaining numbers (add five to the access key for the tab). If you are in a screen with five tabs, the uplinks are alt-6, alt-7, alt-8, alt-9, and alt-0. If there are less than five tabs, you still add five to get the uplink key.

Footer page info row

:   see public version

Footer user row

~   user settings
q   logout

Contents screen (folder)

Listing header

n   new...
s   Focus select list for a new item
i   import...

Listing body

p   Focus select list for choosing a position number
m  move

Listing footer

a   select all
r   rename
d   delete
x   cut
c   copy
v   paste
g   paste ghost

Editor and preview screen

;   public preview...

Publish screen (folder)

Listing header

e   export...

Listing footer

a   select all
n   new versions
j   reject (request for approval)
v   revoke (approval)
c   close (public documents)
s   set timing
o   open to public

Add screen

c   cancel
a   add
e   add and edit/enter

Silva forms editor

s   save
e   save and exit
i   save and insert
tab      Use your tab key to edit without using the mouse. Shift-tab goes backwards.

Other screens

The Properties, Access, and Publish screens as well as their subscreens (such as Lookup, Import, and Export) have access keys for most buttons. Usually the first letter of the button is the access key. You can always hover over the button to see the tooltip.

If there are two buttons with the same name, the access key for the second is usually the first letter of the second word (e.g. for “get image reference” and “get link reference”, the access keys are ‘g’ and ‘l’). Sometimes there are multiples of the same button, in which case only the first has an access key.

Notes

• Some access keys can conflict with browser menus. However the key works if the focus is in the page (a form element is active or just click in the page).
• Mozilla and Internet Explorer handle access keys for hyperlinks differently. Mozilla initiates the action (same as clicking the link), whereas Explorer just highlights the link, and then you have to hit return to activate it. Both browsers treat form buttons the same, initiating the action immediately.
• Don’t forget that most browsers use alt-left arrow to go back, and alt-right arrow to go forward. On the Mac, command-left arrow and command-right arrow do this.

Someday browsers will automatically underline the access key of a link or button. In the meantime, send a mail and complain.

Tip: one click editing

When viewing a public Silva page, switching to the SMI is easiest if there's a bookmark on your browser toolbar. Add a bookmark with the following javascript:

javascript:window.location.pathname=
(window.location.pathname +'/edit').replace(/\/\//,'/')

Or, save this link – Silva edit... – as a bookmark, and delete the ‘http://...’ and the path from the bookmark address. Thanks to ETH Zürich for this trick.

Tip for Mozilla/Netscape users

Using the “Find As You Type” feature will make keyboard navigation to hyperlinks – such as item names – remarkably easy. See:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ui/accessibility/typeaheadfind.html