Keyboard shortcuts are very useful and come handy when you need to increase the speed of how you work in a software. Ax 7 also has some keyboard shortcuts that would come handy to the consultants when working on the system.
Below is the list of the shortcuts available.
Action shortcuts
Action | Shortcut/Key Combination |
Open action search | Ctrl+’ or Alt+Q |
Move to the standard action pane | Ctrl+F6 |
Open a tab in the action pane or a menu | Enter or Space or Alt+Down Arrow |
Move to next/previous option in a menu | Down Arrow / Up Arrow |
Close a tab in the action pane or a menu | Esc |
Simulate a right-click | Shift+F10 |
Open the Dynamics AX context menu | Ctrl+F10 |
Execute the default button on a form/dialog | Alt+Enter |
Click a button or tile | Enter or Space |
View refresh information for a count tile | Alt+Up Arrow |
Date picker shortcuts
Action | Shortcut/Key combination |
Open the date picker | Alt+Down Arrow |
Move between dates in the date picker | Ctrl+Arrows |
Move to the next/previous month | Page Down / Page Up |
Move to the next/previous year | Ctrl+Shift+Page Down / Ctrl+Shift+Page Up |
Factbox shortcuts
Action | Shortcut/Key combination |
Open the FactBox pane (or move focus to the FactBox pane if it is already open) | Ctrl+F2 |
Close the FactBox pane (with focus in the FactBox pane) | Esc |
Move to the next/previous FactBox (with focus in the FactBox pane) | Alt+Shift+Down Arrow / Alt+Shift+Up Arrow |
Move to the <n>th FactBox (with focus in the FactBox pane) | Alt+<n> (<n> = 1-9) |
Expand a FactBox (with focus on the FactBox header) | Space or Enter |
Collapse the current FactBox | Alt+0 |
Filtering shortcuts
Action | Shortcut/Key combination |
Open grid filtering for the current column | Ctrl+G |
Close grid filtering for the current column | Esc |
Open the Filter pane (or switch focus between the Filter pane and the main form if the Filter pane is already open) | Ctrl+F3 |
Close the Filter pane (with focus in the Filter pane) | Esc |
Open advanced filtering/sort | Ctrl+Shift+F3 |
Form shortcuts
Action | Shortcut/Key combination |
Create a new record | Alt+N |
Delete a record | Alt+Del or Alt+F9 |
Save record | Alt+S or Ctrl+S |
Revert (restore) | Ctrl+Shift+F5 |
Data refresh | Shift+F5 |
Move to the visible first field on the form | Alt+Shift+F |
Toggle edit mode | F2 |
Attach a document | Ctrl+Shift+A |
Export to Excel | Ctrl+Shift+E |
Move to the previous record (outside a grid) | Ctrl+Up Arrow |
Move to the next record (outside a grid) | Ctrl+Down Arrow |
Move to the first record (outside a grid) | Ctrl+Home |
Move to the last record (outside a grid) | Ctrl+End |
Open the navigation list on Details forms (or switch focus between the navigation list and the main form if it is already open) | Ctrl+F8 |
Close the navigation list on Details form (with focus in the navigation list) | Esc |
Form navigation shortcuts
Action | Shortcut/Key combination |
Move to the next/previous field | Tab / Shift+Tab |
Move to the next/previous tab | Alt+Shift+Right Arrow / Alt+Shift+Left Arrow |
Move to the next/previous FastTab | Alt+Shift+Down Arrow / Alt+Shift+Up Arrow |
Move to the <n>th FastTab | Alt+<n> (<n> = 1-9) |
Move to the <n>th tab | Alt+Shift+<n> (<n> = 1-9) |
Expand a FastTab (with focus on the FastTab header) | Space or Enter |
Collapse the current FastTab | Alt+0 |
Switch to grid view | Ctrl+Shift+G |
Switch to details view | Ctrl+Shift+D |
Switch to header view | Ctrl+Shift+H |
Switch to lines view | Ctrl+Shift+L |
Close the form (click Back) | Esc |
Close the form with explicit save | Shift+Esc |
Close the form discarding any unsaved changes | Alt+Shift+Q |
Grid shortcuts
Action | Shortcut/Key combination |
Move to the next/previous column | Tab / Shift+Tab |
Move to the next/previous row | Down Arrow / Up Arrow |
Move to the next/previous row without selecting (Note: This shortcut applies to multi-select scenarios only.) | Ctrl+Up Arrow / Ctrl+Down Arrow |
Select/clear the current row (Note: This shortcut applies to multi-select scenarios only.) | Ctrl+Space / Ctrl+Click |
Add the next/previous row to the selected set (Note: This shortcut applies to multi-select scenarios only.) | Shift+Space |
Add a range of rows to the selected set (Note: This shortcut applies to multi-select scenarios only.) | Shift+Click |
Go to the next/previous page of data | Page Up / Page Down |
Create a new row at the bottom of the grid | Down Arrow (from the last row) |
Select or clear all rows | Ctrl+Shift+M |
Move to the first record | Ctrl+Home |
Move to the last record | Ctrl+End |
Input control shortcuts
Action | Shortcut/Key combination |
Enter the session date in a date field | D+Tab |
Enter the current date in a date field | T+Tab |
Open lookup, combo box, date picker, drop dialog | Alt+Down Arrow |
Close lookup, combo box, date picker, drop dialog | Esc |
Move focus into a lookup (when the lookup is already open) | Alt+Down Arrow |
Select text in the current field | Ctrl+A |
Enter/leave the text area in an HTML editor control | Alt+Down Arrow / Alt+Up Arrow |
Messaging shortcuts
Action | Shortcut/Key combination |
Go to the Message Center | Ctrl+Shift+F7 |
Go to the Message Bar | Ctrl+F7 |
Navigation shortcuts
Action | Shortcut/Key combination |
Go to the dashboard | Alt+Shift+Home |
Go to the navigation bar | Alt+Shift+F1 |
Go to the navigation pane | Alt+F1 |
Go to the company picker | Ctrl+Shift+O |
Go to navigation search | Ctrl+/ or Alt+G |
Open the help pane | Ctrl+? |
Segmented entry shortcuts
Action | Shortcut/Key combination |
Open the drop-down list (when the drop-down list is closed) | Alt+Down Arrow |
Move focus into the input field for the current segment in the drop-down list (when the drop-down list is already open) | Alt+Down Arrow |
Close the drop-down list | Alt+Up Arrow |
Close/open the right portion of the drop-down list | Alt+Left Arrow / Alt+Right Arrow |
Toggle between “Show valid” and “Show all” modes | Alt+W |
Select the value from drop-down list and move to the next segment | Enter |
Move to the next/previous control on the page (when focus is in input control) | Tab / Shift+Tab |
Move to the next/previous input field in the flyout (when focus is in the drop-down list) | Tab / Shift+Tab |
Move up/down a row in the lookup | Up Arrow / Down Arrow |
Move up/down a page in the lookup | Page Up / Page Down |
Move to the top/bottom of the lookup | Home / End |