Keyboard Shortcuts

This section provides the following information about shortcuts:

"Keyboard Shortcuts for Oracle BI EE and Oracle BI Publisher"
"Navigating in Oracle Business Intelligence Dashboards"

Keyboard Shortcuts for Oracle BI EE and Oracle BI Publisher

Both Oracle BI EE and BI Publisher support standard keyboard shortcuts that are used in many software applications. In addition, both components offer shortcuts to perform tasks that are specific to those components. Table C-1 describes general keyboard shortcuts for use with Oracle BI EE and BI Publisher.

Table C-1 General Keystrokes

Keyboard Shortcut	Result
CTRL+ALT+G	Navigates to the first focusable element in the global header, which is the Skip to Content link. This link enables you to bypass the options that are available in the global header and to move to the features that available in the main part of the Home page.
CTRL+ALT+D	Navigates to the Dashboards popup menu in the global header. You can then press ENTER to display a menu from which you select a dashboard to display.
CTRL+ALT+P	Navigates to the current dashboard page tab, if the tab is displayed. If there is only one page in the dashboard, then the page tab is not displayed.
CTRL+SHIFT+S	Navigates to the first focusable element in the next section. For a dashboard page, the first element is the collapse icon.
CTRL+SHIFT+ U	Navigates to the first focusable element in the previous section. For a dashboard page, the first element is the collapse icon.
TAB	Navigates to the next focusable element.
SHIFT + TAB	Navigates to the previous focusable element.
Down Arrow	Navigates to the next menu option.
Up Arrow	Navigates to the previous menu option.
ENTER	Triggers the activity, when the focus is on a link, an image, or a button with an associated URL or activity.
ESC	Closes the menu that has the focus.

Table C-2 describes keyboard shortcuts for navigating in dashboards in Oracle BI EE and reports in BI Publisher.

Table C-2 Keyboard Shortcuts for Navigating in Oracle BI EE and BI Publisher

Keyboard Shortcut	Result
ALT + Up or Down Arrow	Opens drop-down and combo boxes.
CTRL + Up or Down Arrow	Shows the next or previous item in a combo box.

Note:

If you use Freedom Scientific JAWS or other screen reader programs, then you must first disable the virtual PC cursor before using the keystroke combinations to navigate the dashboard. You must enable the virtual PC cursor at other times, such as when navigating within table objects on a dashboard.

Table C-3 describes keyboard shortcuts for navigating the "BI Composer wizard". (For more information on BI Composer, see Chapter 14, "Using BI Composer to Work with Analyses.")

Note:

The Catalog tree that is displayed in the Catalog tab of the BI Composer wizard is interpreted as a table. To navigate the tree, use the table keystrokes for your screen reader program.

Table C-3 Keyboard Shortcuts for Navigating in the BI Composer Wizard

Keyboard Shortcut	Result
ALT + SHIFT + b	Navigates to the Back button.
ALT + SHIFT + c	Navigates to the Cancel button.
ALT + SHIFT + l	Navigates to the Finish button.
ALT + SHIFT + x	Navigates to the Next button.
ALT + CTRL + m	Navigates to the context menu. For example, selecting an item in the Catalog tree and pressing ALT + CTRL + m displays a menu with options to expand and collapse menu items.
ALT + Down Arrow	Reads the messages in a pop-up window, one by one.

Navigating on the Home Page

If you display the Home page after signing into Oracle BI EE or by navigating from another location in Oracle BI EE, then you must press CTRL+ALT+G to place the focus on the Skip to Content link in the upper-left corner of the Home page.

To navigate on the Home page with keystrokes:

Sign into Oracle BI EE, as described in "Signing In Using Keystrokes".
Press CTRL+ALT+G to display the Skip to Content link in the upper-left corner of the Home page.
Press one of the following:
- ENTER on this link to navigate to the default starting location on the Home page, which is the first link in the upper-left corner under the global header.
- TAB to navigate to the first focusable element in the global header.
Continue to press TAB to navigate through the elements on the Home page.

Navigating in Oracle Business Intelligence Dashboards

The following procedure describes one way to navigate a dashboard using keyboard shortcuts. This procedure does not include all keyboard shortcuts and options but serves as an example.

To navigate dashboards with keystrokes:

Sign into Oracle BI EE, as described in "Signing In Using Keystrokes".
- If the Home page is displayed first, then use keystrokes to display the dashboard. Press CTRL+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, then press ENTER on the name of the dashboard to display.
  
  Proceed to the next step.
- If a dashboard is displayed, then proceed to the next step.
Navigate to the desired dashboard page as follows:
1. Press CTRL+ALT+G to display the Skip to Content link.
2. Press TAB multiple times to navigate through the global header to the tab that corresponds to the first page of the dashboard.
  
  If there are no page tabs, then you 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.
Press CTRL+SHIFT+S to navigate to the first focusable element in the next section, which is the collapse icon.
Press TAB to navigate to the next focusable element in the current section.
Press CTRL+SHIFT+S to navigate to the first focusable element in the next section.
While the section collapse and expand icon has focus, press ENTER to collapse the current section.
To navigate in a table or pivot table:
1. Press TAB to select the table.
2. Press TAB to move through the headers of the table 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, then ENTER to display the options for the menu in the first header row. Press TAB and use the arrow keys to highlight the options in the menu and press ENTER to select the desired option.