Keyboard Shortcuts
You can use your keyboard to navigate throughout Preconstruction and work with important controls. In general, you can use the Tab key to cycle through elements within the application, and press Enter or Space to access them.
Page Header Navigation
- Press Tab to navigate the parts of the page header. In the part that lists the main pages (Tenders, My opportunities, Open opportunities, Reports, Directory), press the Left Arrow and Right Arrow to navigate the page links. Similarly, in the section that includes the user menu, the notification link, and the help link, press the Left Arrow and Right Arrow to navigate among these links.
- Press Enter to navigate to the highlighted page or open the highlighted menu (such as More or the user menu).
- In menus (More or the user menu), press the Up Arrow and Down Arrow to navigate among the choices and Enter to select them.
List Views
List views include lists of objects, like the projects on the All projects page.
- Press F2 with a list highlighted to enter edit mode.
- Press Esc to exit edit mode.
- Press Tab to navigate to the next focusable element. Press Shift + Tab to the previous focusable element.
Tables
Tables are similar to list views but typically show more specific objects, like files on the Files tab of the View details page.
- Press Tab to move the focus to the first row of the table.
- Press the Down Arrow or Up Arrow to navigate rows.
- Press Home to highlight to the first row. Press End to highlight the last row.
- Press F2 with a row highlighted to enter edit mode. In edit mode, press F2 again to enter read mode.
- Press Tab to navigate among focusable elements in a row.
- Press Space to select a row.
Detail Windows
Detail windows contain details about a selected element.
- Press F6 to move focus on the detail window.
- Press Esc to close the detail window.
- Press Tab or Shift+Tab to navigate among the focusable elements inside the detail window.
Date Pickers
- Press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow to show the calendar.
- Press Home to highlight the first date of the month. Press End to highlight the last date of the month.
- Press Page Up to move to the next month. Press Page Down to move to the previous month.
- Press Alt + Page Up to move to the next year. Press Alt + Page Down to move to the previous year.
Tab Bars
A tab bar is a group of tabs on a single page, as on the View details page, where tabs include Project details and Tender packages.
- Press Enter or Space to select a highlighted tab.
- Press the Left Arrow or Right Arrow to navigate horizontally among tabs.
- Press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow to navigate vertically among tabs.
- Press Home to highlight the first tab. Press End to highlight the last tab.
Trade Code Components
- On the Settings page, with one of the trade code sets selected, press Left Arrow and Right Arrow to change the set selected. Press Enter to select the highlighted set.
- In tables that list trade codes, press the Down Arrow and Up Arrow to navigate among the trade code rows.
- To expand a highlighted CSI code to show its subordinate trade codes, press Enter to select the row, press Tab to highlight the expand arrow, and then press Enter again to expand the row.
Action Menus
Action menus expand to show various actions when you select them. They include the user menu and the smaller menus that are indicated by the 
Actions icon.
- Press Enter with an action menu highlighted to open it.
- Press the Up Arrow or Down Arrow to navigate among the menu choices.
Sliders
- Press Tab to focus on the slider component.
- With the slider highlighted, press the Left Arrow or Right Arrow to move the slider and update the values.