NAVIGATING THE form

Overview

For a comprehensive list of form navigation techniques see Moving Around the System and Kerridge User Manual Conventions.

However, a number of common functions and techniques are used to navigate the various forms and menus within the Kestrel application. These techniques have been compiled together within this form to provide a quick easy-to-use reference guide.

Buttons

Numerous command buttons are used within Kestrel menus and forms. Examples of frequently used command buttons are as follows:

• OK

This button is used to confirm a particular option selection.

• Cancel

Cancels any edited amendments and returns to the previous form.

• Help

Provides online access to a context sensitive help form.

To navigate the Command Buttons the following methods can be used:

• Click the required button with the mouse
• Use the Tab key to move to the required button and Spacebar to select
• Use Alt+X where X is the letter underlined in the button name

A number of other buttons are used frequently throughout the system.

• Minimise Button

Located on the Titlebar this minimises the form to a button and transfers it to the Taskbar

• Maximise Button

Located on the Titlebar this returns the form to its full size

• Exit Button

Located on the Titlebar this exits the current form and returns to the previous form or menu

• Down-arrow

Selection of the down-arrow button displays a drop-down list box displaying available options. A single click of the mouse highlights and selects the appropriate item.

Scroll Bars

The Scroll Bar can be operated in a number of ways:

• Holding down the up/down arrow to control movement up and down the List Box

• Positioning the mouse pointer over the Scroll Box, hold down the left mouse button, and move the mouse. The mouse pointer moves, dragging the Scroll Box. Move the Scroll Box to the desired location and release the left mouse button.

• Position the mouse pointer over the Scroll Bar. Single-click with the mouse, above or below the Scroll Box depending upon the intended direction, as many times as is required to move the Scroll Box up or down to the desired location.

Windows Functionality

• Item Selection

Within a List Box, selection of the required item(s) can be carried out in a number of ways using standard windows functionality.

• To select adjacent items in a list:

Single-left-click on the first required item and, while holding down the mouse button, stripe-down to the last required item.

Single-left-click on the first required item, hold down the Shift Key, and single-click on the last required item in the list.

• To select non-adjacent items in a list:

Single-click on the first required item, hold down the Ctrl Key, then click on the next required item (repeat this process until all the required items are selected).

• If only one item is required, single-click on the required item.

• Check boxes

A single-click of the mouse places a tick within the check box and selects the option. A further single-click of the mouse deselects the option. The spacebar also places a tick within the check box.

• Ellipsis Box

Selection of the ellipsis box always displays a further selection form.

• Tab

  Enables movement from field to field within a form (in a pre-determined order) without the use of a mouse.

• Option Buttons

Option buttons are mutually exclusive and prompt the selection of one option at the expense of other choice(s).

Clicking with the Mouse

• Single-Left-Click

Selects and highlights the required choice.

• Double-Left-Click

Selects and confirms the required option choice.

• Single-Right-click

Often displays a further selection choice.

In certain circumstances a left-click on column headers enables a column to be sorted in ascending/descending order