Dialog Boxes

HP Easytime/XL uses dialog boxes to present information, or to prompt you for data needed to complete a task. Dialog boxes are windows that appear on the screen and overlay portion of the current display.

Dialog boxes usually contain one or more fields (areas that can be filled in or edited), or a list of choices from which a value can be selected.

Whenever an ellipsis (...) appears after a menu item, a dialog box (or another screen) follows.

When a dialog box appears, input information in any of the following ways:

Typing Text in a Field

1. Press Tab key to move from one data entry field to the next.

2. Type the requested information.

Correcting Errors

Use any of the following keys to correct typing errors:

To do this

Press these keys

Go to insert mode

Insert char key

Exit insert mode

Insert char key again

Delete a character

Delete char key

Delete one character to the
left of cursor

Backspace key

Delete all characters

Delete line key

Delete all characters to the
right of the cursor

Clear line key

Selecting Items

Only one item can be selected from a list that appears within a dialog box. Often, one item is highlighted (preselected).

1. Use the [utrif] and [dtrif] keys to move the cursor to the item you want to select.

2. Press either F3, Return, or Spacebar keys.

Selecting Options

1. Press Tab key to move to the option wanted.

2. Press either F3, Return, or Spacebar key to choose the option.

   Selected choices are marked by either an asterisk <*>, or by [X}, refer to Figure 2-7 “Selected Options”.

   Figure 2-7 Selected Options

Moving in a Dialog Box

Use the following keys to move in a dialog box:

To move

Press these keys

To the next field

Tab key

To the previous field

Shift + Tab keys

One character to the right

Right arrow key

One character to the left

Left arrow key

Canceling Dialog Box

• Press F8 Cancel to cancel a task and close the dialog box.

Closing Dialog Box

• Press F5 OK to complete a task and close the dialog box.