1. Accessibility Guide
  2. Essbase Studio
  3. Keyboard Shortcuts in Dialog Boxes and Editors
  4. Metadata Elements

Metadata Elements

  • Table 7-24 Keyboard Shortcuts for Folder Properties Dialog Box
  • Table 7-25 Keyboard Shortcuts for Dimension Element Properties Dialog Box
  • Table 7-26 Keyboard Shortcuts for Derived Text Measure Properties Dialog Box
  • Table 7-27 Keyboard Shortcuts for Text List Properties Dialog Box
  • Table 7-28 Keyboard Shortcuts for Hierarchy and Measure Hierarchy Editor
  • Table 7-29 Keyboard Shortcuts for Calendar Hierarchy Dialog Box
  • Table 7-30 Keyboard Shortcuts for Day Attributes Dialog Box
  • Table 7-31 Keyboard Shortcuts for Edit Linked Value Attributes Dialog Box
  • Table 7-32 Keyboard Shortcuts for Edit Labeling Rules
  • Table 7-33 Keyboard Shortcuts for Create Date Elements Dialog Box
  • Table 7-34 Keyboard Shortcuts for Alias Sets Dialog Box
  • Table 7-35 Keyboard Shortcuts for the Create Bindings Dialog Box

Table 7-24 Keyboard Shortcuts for Folder Properties Dialog Box

Keys Element Name
Alt+N Name
Alt+D Description

Table 7-25 Keyboard Shortcuts for Dimension Element Properties Dialog Box

Keys Element Name
Alt+N Name
Alt+D Description
Alt+F Formula
Alt+C Caption Binding
Alt+S Key Binding option: Same as caption
Alt+A Key Binding option: Advanced
Alt+Y Key Binding option: Delayed
Alt+T Filter
Alt+O Sort Order

Table 7-26 Keyboard Shortcuts for Derived Text Measure Properties Dialog Box

Keys Element Name
Alt+N Name
Alt+D Description
Alt+F Formula
Alt+E Expression
Alt+R

Note:

Use Alt+R when rows are present in the Range table. When the Range table is empty, tab to the Add another row button to begin adding rows to the table.
Range

Table 7-27 Keyboard Shortcuts for Text List Properties Dialog Box

Keys Element Name
Alt+N Name
Alt+D Description
Alt+B Bindings
Alt+V Value Binding
Alt+I ID Binding

Table 7-28 Keyboard Shortcuts for Hierarchy and Measure Hierarchy Editor

Keys Element Name
Alt+N Name
Alt+D Description
Alt+T Data
Alt+A Add
Alt+P+C Preview With Caption Binding (not available for measure hierarchies)
Alt+P+K Preview With Key Binding (not available for measure hierarchies)
Alt+A

Or

Insert

 Add child
Alt+S

Or

Shift+Insert

 Add sibling
Alt+C

Or

Ctrl+Insert

 Add user-defined child
Alt+U

Or

Ctrl+Shift+Insert

 Add user-defined sibling

Table 7-29 Keyboard Shortcuts for Calendar Hierarchy Dialog Box

Keys Element Name
Alt+H Hierarchy Name
Alt+G Gregorian
Alt+F Fiscal
Alt+R Retail
Alt+I ISO
Alt+M Manufacturing
Alt+S Start Date
Alt+D End Date
Alt+W First day of week
Alt+T Time Depth
Alt+E Edit
Alt+A Day Attributes
Alt+V Edit LVA

Table 7-30 Keyboard Shortcuts for Day Attributes Dialog Box

Keys Element Name
Alt+S Sunday
Alt+M Monday
Alt+T Tuesday
Alt+W Wednesday
Alt+H Thursday
Alt+F Friday
Alt+U Saturday
Alt+D Dimension Name
Alt+A Add
Alt+R Remove

Table 7-31 Keyboard Shortcuts for Edit Linked Value Attributes Dialog Box

Keys Element Name
Alt+L, then use the Tab key to tab through the options. Linked Value Attributes

Table 7-32 Keyboard Shortcuts for Edit Labeling Rules

Keys Element Name
Alt+U Use 2-digit time entity

Table 7-33 Keyboard Shortcuts for Create Date Elements Dialog Box

Keys Element Name
Alt+Y Year
Alt+Q Quarter
Alt+M Month
Alt+D Day of week

Table 7-34 Keyboard Shortcuts for Alias Sets Dialog Box

Keys Element Name
Alt+N Name
Alt+D Description
Alt+B Bindings
Alt+B, Shift+F10

The Bindings popup menu has these options:

  • N—Sort by dimension element name
  • P—Sort by dimension element path
  • B—Sort by bindings
  • A—Sort ascending
  • D—Sort descending
  • F—Show full path for dimension elements
 Bindings popup menu
Tab

Press Tab to move to the following buttons:

  • Create a binding
  • Create bindings by inspection
  • Edit the selected binding
  • Delete the selected bindings

Table 7-35 Keyboard Shortcuts for the Create Bindings Dialog Box

Keys Element Name
Alt+S Source selection tree
Alt+X Binding expression
Alt+B Binding expression tree