Navigating within Panels

This section describes how resize and close panels and how to navigate within column-based panels.

To resize a panel

Hover the mouse pointer over an edge or corner of the panel until the resizing icon displays, then click and drag the edge or corner.

Inception does no save custom panel sizing as part of a perspective.

To close a panel

Click the Icon_-_Panel_-_Close.png Close icon in the top right corner of the panel.

If the layout position contains more than one open panel, only the current panel closes. To close all open panels at once, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl Alt Shift Q.

Navigating within Column-Based Panels

Column-based panels consist of horizontal rows, each of which represents a story, a playlist item, or a scheduled event. Each vertical column contains one type of information about the rows.

The following panel types are column-based:

Running Order panels

Task Schedule panel

Approval Manager panel

Story Browser panel

Playlist panels

The following table describes how to navigate within a column-based panel.

Table 1.2  Column-based Panel Navigation

Desired Effect

Action to Perform

To move between cells

Press the , , , or keys.

Alternatively, to move horizontally, press Tab or Shift Tab.

To select a row

Click the row or press the  and keys to navigate to the row.

Yellow shading highlights the selected row.

To select a range of rows

Click the first row in the selection range, then Shift-click the last row in the selection range.

The row selection includes the first selected row, the last selected row, and all the rows between the two selected rows.

To select multiple rows

Click the first row to select, then Ctrl-click additional rows to add to the selected row.

To select all rows

Click a row, then press Ctrl A.

Inceptions selects all the rows in a panel.

To select a cell

Click the cell, or navigate to it by pressing the , , , or  keys or Tab and Shift Tab

To replace all the text in a cell

Select the cell, press the Space Bar, then enter new contents using the keyboard.

To edit the text in a cell

Select the cell, press the Insert key, press the  and  keys to position the cursor, then insert new content using the keyboard. Press the Delete key to delete individual characters.

To change the status of a check box in the selected cell

Select the cell, then press the Space Bar to reverse the cell status.

To scroll horizontally

Click and drag the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the panel.

To scroll vertically

Roll the mouse wheel or click and drag the vertical scroll bar on the right side of the panel.

To move a column

Click and drag the column header to a new location in the panel.