Keyboard shortcuts for ARIS Connect Designer

The following shortcuts are available in ARIS Connect Designer.

Keyboard shortcuts can be performed on selected items. Selected items can be identified by the focus in the program.

Shortcut

Action

Alt

Temporarily switches off Guided Modeling and grid when you drag items.

Alt + down arrow

Moves selected objects down four grid lines.

Alt + F4

Closes the web browser. If changed models have not yet been saved, the system displays a message to notify you. You can cancel the dialog and save the model or leave the model page without saving.

Alt + left arrow

Moves selected objects four grid lines to the left.

Alt + - (minus)

Inserts an optional hyphen at the cursor position in a text.

Alt + right arrow

Moves selected objects four grid lines to the right.

Alt + up arrow

Moves selected objects up four grid lines.

Ctrl + A

Selects all items.

Ctrl + C

Copies selected items to the clipboard. This enables you to paste copied items from the clipboard into models/diagrams and into other Windows programs.

Ctrl + down arrow

Moves selected items downwards by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + End

Displays the bottom right pane of the model window.

Ctrl + Enter

Inserts a line break for text attributes, such as free-form texts, object names, etc.

Ctrl + F

Opens the Find bar.

Ctrl + F4

Closes the model tab. If changed models have not yet been saved, the system displays a message to notify you. You can cancel the dialog and save the model or leave the model page without saving.

Ctrl + Home

Displays the upper left pane of the model window.

Ctrl + left arrow

Moves selected items to the left by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + Page down

Switches to the next web browser tab from left to right if your web browser supports changing tabs using the keyboard.

Ctrl + Page up

Switches to the next web browser tab from right to left if your web browser supports changing tabs using the keyboard.

Ctrl + right arrow

Moves selected items to the right by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + S

Saves your changes.

Ctrl + Shift + V

Inserts a definition copy of an object if an object is in the clipboard.

Ctrl + up arrow

Moves selected items upwards by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + V

Pastes the content of the clipboard, if this is content that can be placed in the model window. If an object is in the clipboard, an occurrence copy of the object is inserted.

Ctrl + X

Cuts selected items and copies them to the clipboard.

Ctrl + Y

Redoes editing steps that were undone.

Ctrl + Z

Undoes preceding editing steps.

Del

Removes selected object symbols or deletes selected items, such as free-form text and graphic objects.

Down arrow

Moves the model window contents up (the contents of the model window that are further down will be displayed).

Enter

Ends the input.

ESC

Removes selections and closes dialogs. Closing dialogs with the ESC key is the same as clicking Cancel.

F2

Selects the selected text attribute of an element or the object name of a selected object for editing.

F3

Opens the Find bar. When the find bar is open, pressing the F3 key jumps to the next occurrence of the searched term.

F5

Updates the current view based on the database changes.

F11

Turns full screen mode on or off if your web browser supports full screen.

Left arrow

Moves the model window contents to the right (the contents of the model window that are further left will be displayed).

- (minus)

Reduces the display of the model content by 10%.

Page down

Scrolls the screen down. The scroll distance may vary depending on the application.

Page up

Scrolls the screen up. The scroll distance may vary depending on the application.

+ (plus)

Enlarges the display of the model content by 10%.

Right arrow

Moves the model window contents to the left (the contents of the model window that are further right will be displayed).

Shift

Keeps the shapes of a circle and a square when you place and scale the graphic objects Circle/Elipse and Square/Rectangle.

Shift + Page down

Moves the contents of the model window page by page to the right (the contents of the model window that are further left will be displayed).

Shift + Page up

Moves the contents of the model window page by page to the left (the contents of the model window that are further right will be displayed).

Up arrow

Moves the model window contents down (the contents of the model window that are further up will be displayed).