Patriot 6 Keyboard Shortcuts

Patriot 6 offers many keyboard shortcuts to help experienced operators navigate around the system more efficiently.

Custom Workstation Keyboard Shortcuts

Custom keyboard shortcuts can be added in Patriot's Workstation Settings. Once added, and your workstation settings saved, these shortcuts become active throughout the Patriot client program. Custom keyboard shortcuts are only limited to any ten of the twelve standard keyboard function keys (F1 and F10 are reserved by the Windows operating system). The list of actions you can perform with custom keyboard shortcuts depends on your version of Patriot, but will include common operations like viewing a chosen user group listing, or opening a Patriot workspace tab e.g. the Current Activation screen.

Keyboard Shortcuts
Custom keyboard shortcuts can be added in the Workstation Settings.

Main Menu Shortcuts:

The following menus are accessible anywhere in the program and can be used to control the menus and screens directly.

Ctrl+Alt+M
Monitoring Menu
Ctrl+Alt+C
Search Clients Menu
Ctrl+Alt+T
Maintenance Menu
Ctrl+Alt+B
Billing Menu
Ctrl+Alt+S
System Menu
Ctrl+Alt+R
Reporting Menu
Ctrl+Alt+O
Security/Operator Menu
Ctrl+Alt+H
Help Menu
Esc
Closes Current menu / popup
Ctrl+W / Ctrl+F4
Closes Current workspace / tab

Client Shortcuts

These shortcuts are available while a client record is open and can be used to quickly reach different sections of the client record.

Ctrl+S
Save / Close Client
Alt+V
Activation Tab
Alt+C
Contact Tab
Alt+P
Map Tab
Alt+S
Status Tab
Alt+A
Camera Tab
Alt+U
Users Tab
Alt+H
History Tab
Alt+E
Event Types Tab
Alt+Z
Zones Tab
Alt+R
Response Tab
Alt+D
Schedule Tab
Alt+T
Tests Tab
Alt+B
Billing Tab
Alt+M
Maintenance Tab
Alt+W
Work Orders Tab
Alt+O
Reporting Tab

Note for translation: When translating the tab names, an _ (underscore) character can be placed before the letter that should be used for the Alt shortcut. E.g. C_amera makes Alt+A trigger the Camera tab.

List Shortcuts

These shortcuts can be used inside most lists in Patriot, e.g. Event Types list, Zones list, Countries list etc. etc.

Ctrl+S
Save Current Item
Ctrl+N
Insert New Item
Ctrl+A
Select All Items

Dialog Shortcuts

These shortcuts can be used while a dialog window is being displayed.

Alt+O
OK
Alt+Y
Yes
Alt+N
No
Alt+C
Cancel
Ctrl+C
Copies dialog text to the Clipboard. This can then be saved or sent to Patriot support for assistance if needed.