Vault Safety Keyboard Shortcuts

Learn about keyboard shortcuts that help you work quickly in Vault Safety. These shortcuts are available for all of Vault’s supported browsers, but not on mobile devices.

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Note Beginning with 24R1 in April 2024 and for all subsequent releases, Vault Safety General Release Help content is moving to a new site. Test the new site using Limited Release content.

Inbox Item and Case Navigation

Action Windows™ Shortcut Mac® OS Shortcut Notes
Select Next Inbox Item or Case K K When viewing an Inbox Item or Case, displays the detail view of the next Inbox Item or Case in the All or Recent list view.
Select Previous Inbox Item or Case J J When viewing an Inbox Item or Case, displays the detail view of the previous Inbox Item or Case in the All or Recent list view.

Inbox Item and Case Field Navigation

Action Windows™ Shortcut Mac® OS Shortcut Notes
Select Next Field TAB TAB Switches to the next editable field on the Inbox Item or Case. You must be in the Edit mode and have the cursor on one of the fields.
Select Previous Field Shift + TAB Shift + TAB Switches to the previous editable field on the Inbox Item or Case. You must be in the Edit mode and have the cursor on one of the fields.

General Field Interaction

Action Windows™ Shortcut Mac® OS Shortcut Notes
Select Picklist Option Up Arrow / Down Arrow, Enter Up Arrow / Down Arrow, Enter In any field with a picklist, pressing the Up Arrow or Down Arrow highlights one list item at a time. Pressing Enter populates the list item.
Select Radio Button or Checkbox TAB, Spacebar TAB, Spacebar On any page with radio buttons or checkboxes, the TAB button switches to the next option. Pressing the spacebar selects the radio button or checkbox.

MedDRA Coding

Action Windows™ Shortcut Mac® OS Shortcut Notes
Code MedDRA Terms TAB, Enter TAB, Enter

After entering the reported term in any MedDRA auto-code field, populates the MedDRA code and term from the active MedDRA dictionary or preconfigured MedDRA synonyms list.

If the reported term is blank, opens the MedDRA Browser.
Close MedDRA Browser ESC ESC Closes the MedDRA Browser.

Source Document Interaction

Action Windows™ Shortcut Mac® OS Shortcut Notes
Copy from Document C C To copy text from a source document in View or Annotate mode, hold down the C key and select the text with your cursor, then release the C key and mouse button to copy.

Vault Platform Keyboard Shortcuts

For more keyboard shortcuts you can use when working with documents in your Vault, see Vault Keyboard Shortcuts.

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