Navigating with Keystrokes

Topics:

Navigating on the Home Page

The Home page is displayed when you sign in to Oracle BI Enterprise Edition or navigate from a different location.

To navigate on the Home page with keystrokes:

  1. Sign in to Oracle BI Enterprise Edition.

  2. Press Control+Alt+G to display the Skip to Content link in the upper-left corner of the Home page.

  3. Press one of the keys described in the following table.

    Keyboard Shortcut Result
    Enter Navigate to the default starting location on the Home page. This location is the first link in the upper-left corner under the global header.
    Tab Navigates to the first focusable element in the global header.

  4. Continue to press Tab to navigate through the elements on the Home page.

Navigating in Dashboards

You can use keystrokes to navigate in dashboards. The following procedure describes one way to navigate a dashboard by using keyboard shortcuts. This procedure is an example; it does not include all keyboard shortcuts and options.

To navigate in dashboards with keystrokes:

  1. Sign in to Oracle BI Enterprise Edition, then take the appropriate action as described in the following table:

    Display Action
    If the Home page is displayed Then use keystrokes to display the dashboard. Press Control+Alt+D to navigate to the Dashboards menu in the global header. Press Enter to display the menu. Press Tab or the arrow keys to navigate through the dashboard names. Press Enter on the name of the dashboard to display it

    Proceed to the next step.

    If a dashboard is displayed Then proceed to the next step.

  2. Navigate to the dashboard page:

    1. Press Control+Alt+G to display the Skip to Content link.

    2. Press Tab multiple times to navigate through the global header. Find the tab that corresponds to the first page of the dashboa rd.

      If there are no page tabs, then navigate to the first focusable element on the dashboard page.

      Press Tab to move through the dashboard pages. After the last page, pressing Tab gives focus to the dashboard page menu.

    3. Press Enter when the focus is on the appropriate page tab to open that page of the dashboard.

  3. Press Control+Shift+S to navigate to the first focusable element in the next section: the collapse icon.

  4. Press Tab to navigate to the next focusable element in the current section.

  5. Press Control+Shift+S to navigate to the first focusable element in the next section.

  6. While the section collapse and expand icon has focus, press Enter to collapse the current section.

  7. To navigate in a table or pivot table:

    1. Press Tab to select the table.

    2. Press Tab to move through table headers and to select any menus that exist there.

    3. When the table has focus, press the arrow keys to navigate among the columns and body cells of the table.

      To access the drop-down menus in the header rows when a body cell has focus, press Tab. Press Enter to display the options for the menu in the first header row. Press Tab and use the arrow keys to highlight the options. Press Enter to select the desired option.