Default keyboard shortcuts

XProtect Smart Client includes default keyboard shortcuts to help you move/swap view items, reset view items, open views, and move content between views. For example, you can use your joystick or mouse to move a PTZ camera and use a keyboard shortcut to send the camera view item to a hotspot or other view at the same time.

You can multitask by using keyboard shortcuts and your mouse or joystick at the same time. For example, you can move a PTZ camera with your joystick and open a view with a keyboard shortcut.

You can also assign custom shortcut key combinations for actions in XProtect Smart Client. See Keyboard settings.

Keyboard keys

To do this

Enter

Open a view and maximize a view item.

Alt +[view number] + [view item number]

Select another open view and then a view item.

/+Enter

(numeric keypad only)

Resets a view item to is default content. See Reset a view item or view.

/+/+Enter

(numeric keypad only)

Resets a view to is default content. See Reset a view item or view.

2, 4, 6, and 8 (arrow keys)

(numeric keypad only)

Select the view item next to the current one (right, left, above, or below).

Select another open view and then a view item.

/+<camera shortcut number>+Enter

(numeric keypad only)

Replace video in a camera view item.

Requirement: Your system administrator has assigned a shortcut number to the camera.

Assigned numbers are shown in parentheses before the camera name on the Views pane.

*+<view shortcut number>+Enter

(numeric keypad only)

Open a view and maximize a view item.

Requirement: you have assigned a shortcut number to a view.

Assigned numbers are shown in parentheses before the view names on the Views pane.