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, and 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 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.

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 Arrow keys (Up, Down, Left, or Right). Alternatively, to move horizontally, press Tab or Shift+Tab.
To select a row	Click the row, or press the Up and Down Arrow 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, and then Shift-click the last row in the selection range. The row selection includes the first selected row, the last selected row, and all of the rows between the two selected rows.
To select multiple rows	Click the first row to select, and then CTRL-click additional rows to add to the selected row.
To select all rows	Click a row, and then press CTRL+A. Inceptions selects all of the rows in a panel.
To select a cell	Click the cell, or navigate to it by pressing the Arrow keys (Up, Down, Left, or Right) or Tab keys (Tab, Shift+Tab)
To replace all of the text in a cell	Select the cell, press the Space Bar, and then enter new contents using the keyboard.
To edit the text in a cell	Select the cell, press the Insert key, press the Left and Right Arrow keys to position the cursor, and 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, and 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.