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Unified Supply Chain Assay

Shortcuts

  • Last UpdatedAug 14, 2026
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Most of the features in the various documents of the product can be accessed using keyboard shortcuts or ribbon buttons. These methods are listed in context throughout, but are collated in this section for easy reference.

Tip: Many operations in the product require use of the context menu to access options. Most keyboards have a key to open the context menu, usually labelled with a Icon Windows Context Menu key, usually bottom right of keyboard next to Alt Gr icon and found between the right Alt (Alt Gr) and right Ctrl keys.

Shortcuts for standard functionality

Action

Button

Keyboard

Ribbon

Alternative

Save the crude to the database.

Icon save icon in shape of floppy disk with yellow cylinder

Ctrl-S

Home > Document > Save

Print the graph, measurement grid or database view, depending on which document page is in focus.

Icon print

Ctrl-P

Menu button > Print

Preview the graph, measurement grid or database view to be printed.

Icon print preview image of page with magnifying glass

Menu button > Print > Print Preview

Cut crudes or blend items to the clipboard.

Icon cut icon depicting scissors

Ctrl-X or Shift-Delete

Home > Clipboard > Cut

Blend crude list: right click for context menu.

Copy crudes or blend items to the clipboard.

Icon copy with two page images

Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Insert

Home > Clipboard > Copy

Blend crude list: right click for context menu.

Copy all cell values to the clipboard.

Icon showing Copy Special

Ctrl-Shift-C

Home > Clipboard > Copy > Copy Special

Measurement Grid: right click for context menu.

Paste crudes or blend items from the clipboard.

Icon Paste showing clipboard with a sheet of paper on it

Ctrl-V or Shift-Insert

Home > Clipboard > Paste

Blend crude list: right click for context menu.

Undo an action.

Icon undo showing an upward arrow that curves to the left and points left and down

Ctrl-Z or Alt-Backspace

Quick Access Bar > Undo

Redo an action.

Icon redo showing an upward arrow that curves to the right and points right and down

Ctrl-Y

Quick Access Bar > Redo

Launch the Configure Filters dialog.

Icon configure filters showing funnel with pencil

Home > View > Filter

Launch the Configure Views dialog.

Icon configure views showing grid with pencil

Home > View > View

Export the current view to Excel.

Icon showing Microsoft Excel app icon

Home > View > Export to Excel

Select all crudes or blend items.

Ctrl-A

Measurement Grid: Click top left of grid.

Open the help.

F1

Help icon

Shortcuts for Generation functionality

Action

Button

Keyboard

Ribbon

Alternative

Add new Measurement Grid.

Icon Add showing plus sign

Shift-F11 or Alt-Shift-F1

For relevant documents exploiting the statistical model, calculate the range of the model for all property/stream combinations in the measurement grid.

Icon calculate model range with grid and curve

F7

Home > Assay > Calculate Model Range

Begin a generation in a document.

Icon Generate showing a pile of colored blocks coming together

F5

Home > Assay > Generate

For documents exploiting the statistical model, check the consistency of the measured values against the generated values predicted by the model.

Icon check consistency page with a green checkmark

Shift-F5

Home > Assay > Check Consistency

Copy measurement data for the selected crude.

Icon copy measurement data. Page with grid with a copy arrow on it

Home > Document > Open > Open With >

Database: Right click on a selected crude for context menu option Open With

Open the measurement data for the selected assay in the selected document.

Ctrl-T

View a human-readable data report for the selected crude(s).

Reporting > Reports > Select Report Type

Database: right click on selected crudes for context menu option View Report

Export a data file for the selected crude(s).

Icon export data file. Page with arrow pointing to a folder

Home > Document > Export

Database: right click on selected crudes for context menu option Export

Launch the set manager.

Icon sets. Oil drop with magnifying glass

Reference Data > Managers > Set Manager

Launch the unit manager.

Icon units. Showing graph left axis with magnifying glass

Reference Data > Managers > Unit Manager

Launch the Correlation Manager.

Icon launch correlation manager. Showing Fx with magnifying glass

Reference Data > Managers > Correlations

Launch the Property Manager.

Icon property manager. Showing laboratory flask with magnifying glass.

Reference Data > Managers > Properties

Launch the Flowsheet Manager.

Icon flowsheets. Showing an image of a distillation unit with a magnifying glass

Reference Data > Managers > Flowsheet Manager

Launch the Assay Report Template Manager.

Icon assays. Shows blue book slightly open

Reporting > Reports > Assay > Manage Templates

Launch the Planning Template Manager.

Icon planning template manager. Shows an open spreadsheet with a highlighted column

Integration > Reports > Planning > Manage Templates

Right click in Database for context menu and choose View Report > Planning Templates > Manage Templates

Launch the Nearness Manager.

Icon nearness manager. Shows bar chart with orange and red bars and a magnifying glass

Reference Data > Managers > Nearness Manager

Launch the SRPV Manager.

Icon SRPV manager. Shows magnifying glass over blue banknote and gold coins

Reference Data > Managers > SRPV Manager

Shortcuts for general functionality

Action

Keyboard

Move to the next control

Tab

Move to the previous control

Shift-Tab

Go to the next top level item in the document navigator

Ctrl-Tab

Go the previous top level item in the document navigator

Ctrl-Shift-Tab

Go to the next item in the document navigator

Ctrl-PgDn

Go to the previous item in the document navigator

Ctrl-PgUp

Select the item #n in the document navigator

Ctrl-Shift-# (for example, Ctrl-Shift-4)

Go to the Database View

Ctrl-Shift-D

Go to the main view

Ctrl-Shift-M

Go to the Graph view

Ctrl-Shift-G

Go to the next pane in the application

F6

Go to the previous pane in the application

Shift-F6

Close the current document

Ctrl-W or Ctrl-F4

Expand or collapse the open document in the document navigator

Ctrl-NumPad-*

Toggle the document's Show on Graph button in the document navigator

F8

Open the Edit With menu on the Database view

Ctrl-E

Rename the selected grid in the document navigator

F2

Delete the selected grid in the document navigator

Ctrl-Delete

Shortcuts for editing functionality

Action

Keyboard

Begin editing

F2 or Shift-F2

Begin editing (with characters typed)

Typing

Begin editing (with empty contents)

Backspace

Shortcuts for editing lists

Action

Keyboard

Begin editing

F2 or Shift-F2

Begin editing (with characters typed)

Typing

Begin editing (with empty contents)

Backspace

Add or insert a new item

Insert or Numpad-plus

Delete the selected item

Delete

Edit the selected item

Enter or Return

Move item(s) up

Ctrl-PgUp

Move item(s) down

Ctrl-PgDn

Shortcuts for non-editable lists

Action

Keyboard

Find the item matching the typed string

Typing

Move down

Enter or Return

Move up

Enter-Shift or Return-Shift

Shortcuts for graphing functionality

Action

Button

Keyboard

Ribbon

Alternative

Launch the Graph Properties Manager.

Icon graph properties. Shows graph, laboratory flask and magnifying glass

Reference Data > Managers > Graph Properties

Toggle the visibility of the graph.

Icon graph visibility. Showing a graph against a yellow background

Ctrl-G

Home > Graphing > Graphs

View the property graph

Icon property profile. Showing graphs.

Home > Graphs > Property Graph

View the residue profile graph

Icon residue profile graph. Showing graph with the letter R

Home > Graph > Residue Graph

View the scatter graph

Icon property scatter graph. Graph showing scattered tiny plus signs for the dots

Home > Graphs > Property/Property Scatter Graph

View the Property Bar graph

Icon property bar graph. Showing a vertical bar chart.

Home > Graphs > Property Bar Graph

View the viscosity graph

Icon viscosity graph. Showing graph with declining blue lines.

Home > Graphs > Viscosity Graph

View the distillation graph

Icon distillation graph. Showing graph with three different colored lines.

Home > Graphs > Distillation Graph

Toggle Cross-Hairs mode on the profile graph.

Icon toggle cross hairs. Shows red curve with dotted grey cross hairs

Make the left axis active in the profile graph.

Icon make left axis active. Shows graph with bold left axis

Ctrl-[

Graph: click in white space to left of left axis

Make the right axis active in the profile graph.

Icon make right axis active. Shows graph with bold right axis

Ctrl-]

Graph: click in white space to right of right axis

Display axis details for the selected graph axis.

Icon display axis details. Shows graph with hand pointing at axis

Choose pan mode in the graph.

Icon pan mode. Shows open hand for pushing things around

Graph: right click for context menu item Pan Mode

Choose Zoom mode in the graph.

Icon zoom mode.Shows magnifying glass with plus sign

Graph: right click for context menu item Zoom Mode

Reset the graph scaling to its original unzoomed view.

Icon reset zoom level. Shows magnifying glass with minus sign

Show the graph information dialog.

Icon show/hide graph information dialog. Shows graph with coloured top and left labels

Ctrl-R

Select an item on the graph in graph editing mode.

Icon select graph item in editing mode. Also used for Graph Point Editing Mode. Shows two symbols of H bars and move arrows

Add a guide point in graph editing mode.

Icon add guide point in editing mode. Shows H bar and plus sign

Remove a guide point in graph editing mode.

Icon remove guide point. Shows H bar and red X icon

Toggle the activity status of a measurement in graph editing mode.

Icon Toggle measurement activity status. Shows line with green tick and red cross

Toggle the molecular scatter on the property profile graph.

Icon toggle molecular scatter. Shows hexagonal benzine ring

Toggle the guide points on the property profile graph.

Icon toggle the guide points. Shows several guide points on a graph

Toggle the h-bars on the property profile graph.

Icon toggle the H-bars. Shows two horizontal bars on graph

Toggle the profile curves on the property profile graph.

Icon toggle the profile curves. Shows two colored lines plus a green curve on a graph

Toggle the property constraints on the property profile graph.

Icon toggle property constraints. Shows two red extent lines with arrows for top and bottom

Select a range of crudes on the scatter graph.

Icon select the range of crudes. Shows dashed box with arrow

Graph: right click for context menu item Selection Mode

Zoom to the selected range of crudes on the scatter graph.

Icone zoom to selected range of crudes. Shows dashed box with magnifying glass

Graph: right click for context menu item Zoom to Selection

Filter database by the selected range of crudes on the scatter graph.

Icon database by selected range of crudes. Dashed box with green arrow pointing left

Graph: right click for context menu item Filter database by selection

Toggle Tracking mode on the viscosity graph.

Icon toggle tracking on viscosity graph. Shows cross hairs next to a box

Toggle the measurements on the viscosity graph.

Icon toggle viscosity measurements. Shows graph with six small zig zags

Toggle the measurement precisions on the viscosity graph.

Icon toggle viscosity measurement precision. Shows H-bars on graph

Toggle the generated profile curves on the viscosity graph.

Icon toggle generated profile curves on viscosity graph. Shows graph with three declining graph lines

Toggle the interpolated profile curves on the viscosity graph.

Icon toggle interpolated profile curves on viscosity graph. Shows three dotted declining lines on graph

Shortcuts for editing grids

Action

Keyboard

Change the focus layer in the advanced grid view

Ctrl-[ or Ctrl-]

Grid Zoom

Shift-Numpad-minus or Shift-Numpad-plus

Change the activity of the measurement

Space

Paste as Text

Ctrl-Alt-V or
Alt-Shift-Insert

Apply edit to entire selection

Ctrl-Enter (while editing)

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