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XProtect Smart Client

Default keyboard shortcuts

Last Updated: 1 minute read
Version2026r1
LanguageEnglish

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 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.

Tip

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.