Additional GUI operations

Shortcut keys and accessibility

The NFM-P supports shortcut keys to enable operation by keyboard alone, without a mouse or pointer. The following keyboard shortcuts are available:

• Standard Java-based shortcuts. The NFM-P supports many conventional keyboard shortcuts for accessibility and convenience.

• Mnemonics. You can use mnemonics to open menu items and access forms. To open a menu item, simultaneously press Alt-key, where key is the underlined letter of the menu item. For example, when the main menu is displayed, pressing Alt-P opens the Policies menu. The menu item must be displayed for the mnemonic to work.

• Keyboard shortcuts for specific NFM-P functions.

The following table describes some of the keyboard shortcuts for specific functions in the NFM-P. For multiple keystrokes, a hyphen means that the keys are pressed simultaneously.

Keyboard shortcut	Description
Ctrl-A	Selects all GUI client sessions on the Select Sessions form Selects all objects on the topology map
Ctrl-C	Stops a command, when using the command window
Ctrl-F	Opens the “Find Attribute in” form when a property form is the active GUI element Opens or closes the search panel when the navigation tree is the active GUI element
Ctrl-O	Opens a directory and lists its contents, when a directory is selected in an NE file system
Ctrl-T	Opens the tab selector dropdown on a property form
Ctrl-Shift-A	Temporarily displays all hidden tabs on a property form
F3 and Shift-F3	When search results for the navigation tree produce multiple matching objects, the F3 key selects the next object. Shift-F3 returns to the previous matching object.

NFM-P clipboard

As well as the standard clipboard functions for copying text, the NFM-P provides a clipboard function that copies property form identifiers. A property form identifier is a unique internal address that the NFM-P assigns to a property form.

Identifiers are copied to the clipboard using the Clipboard icon or the Copy to Clipboard option in a contextual menu. You can use the clipboard to open forms, send identifiers to other users, and configure search filters.

For more information about the NFM-P clipboard, see To use the NFM-P clipboard.

Broadcast messages

You can send messages to other selected NFM-P users or to all active users logged into the NFM-P. This is useful for sending maintenance and similar notifications to other users.

When you receive a message, you can click Reply to respond to the sender.

Messages are uniquely identified with the Client ID number of the sender.

See the procedures on sending a text message to other NFM-P users and sending a broadcast message to GUI clients in the NSP System Administrator Guide for more information.

Task manager

The task manager allows you to monitor the progress of operational tasks. The task manager monitors the following operations:

• all write operations that are performed from the GUI; for example, when you click Apply or OK

• all write operations that are performed using the XML API

• some read operations; for example, when you click Resync or Collect All

See To monitor the NFM-P Task Manager for more information.

An NFM-P administrator can change the task manager settings. See the procedure to change the NFM-P Task Manager settings in the NSP System Administrator Guide.

You can also send the tasks displayed in the Task Manager to a file using the findToFile method. See “Inventory retrieval methods” in the NSP NFM-P XML API Developer Guide for more information.