Shortcuts and quick navigation
Fast diagnosis comes from adding up small gestures: shortcuts, links between tables and one-click filters. This guide gathers them all.
Keyboard shortcuts
They work across the whole panel, and F1 lists them inside the app:
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Ctrl+S | Save (consolidates the project file for copying or backup) |
Ctrl+N | New project |
Ctrl+Space | Freeze / resume the tables' live refresh |
Ctrl+A | Register a device manually by its IP |
Ctrl+H | Save a Snapshot of the current state |
Ctrl+M | Switch between the Monitor and the coverage Map |
Ctrl+K | Global search for devices (see below) |
Ctrl+F | Browser find on screen (highlights, does not filter) |
Ctrl+↓ / Ctrl+↑ | Jump to the next / previous table, with the cursor in its search box |
Tab | From a table's search box, each row's short path: IP, name and its AP |
← ↑ ↓ → | Inside a table: ←→ walk every action in the row; ↑↓ move between rows, headers (Enter sorts), search box and columns menu |
Esc | In layers (see below) |
Ctrl+click | On the Map, over an AP: selects it and shows only that one; again on the same one brings everything back |
F1 | Help and shortcuts |
Two clarifications:
Ctrl+Fand each table's search box do different things.Ctrl+Fhighlights text on screen without touching anything; the table's search box filters the rows. To work on a subset, use the search box.Escworks in layers, most recent first. The first Esc clears what you were typing in a search box, the next closes the modal you were looking at, and the next clears the status filter and the search boxes. A few Esc presses always bring you back to the full table. If you are viewing a Snapshot, with the focus on it and nothing else to clear, one more Esc leaves the Snapshot.
The global search (Ctrl+K)
This is the fastest gesture when a customer calls. Press Ctrl+K (or the magnifier on the bar, in the Monitor and the Map) and type their name, or their IP, MAC, SSID, model or manufacturer; MACs and IPs can be typed without separators. When you pick a result, the app sets the table for you:
- Pick a station: its row is isolated and, in the AP table, its AP. That is the pair a report gets solved with: is it this customer or their sector?
- Pick an AP: its row is isolated and, above, its stations.
- Pick a target from References: its row in that table. It is not offered on the Map, because the map does not draw third-party devices.
On the Map, the chosen device is selected with its card open, the view centers on it and the rest of the map is hidden.
The search finds devices even when a filter has them hidden, because it searches the project and not what is painted. Navigate with ↑↓ and Enter; it also works inside a Snapshot, searching what the Snapshot saved.
Ctrl+K vs Ctrl+F
Ctrl+F searches on-screen text and only highlights. Ctrl+K searches the project's devices and acts: it filters and moves the focus. They complement each other.
One-click filters
- Counters filter. Click Critical (or Good, Warning, Absent) and the stations table narrows to that group, which is the day's work list. Clear filter appears on the bottom rail.
- The name isolates. Click a station's or AP's name and its table shows only that row; another click in the same spot undoes it.
- The stations search crosses with the AP. Typing an AP's name lists all of its stations.
The trips between tables
Every question has its click, no manual hunting:
| You are in… | Click | It answers |
|---|---|---|
| Stations, AP column | the AP's name | "how is its base station?" → its row |
| Stations, AP column | the antenna icon | "and its other clients?" → the table filtered to that AP |
| AP, Stations cell | the counter | "who hangs off here?" → its stations |
| AP, Stations cell | the ping icon | continuous ping to all its registered stations, already running |
| A sentinel alert | the card | straight to the device (clearing the filter so it is not hidden) |
| A notice in the bell | the line | to the device that notice was about |
| A Windows notification | the toast | opens the app on the device that caused it, inside its project |
| The notice from an AP that added new stations to Detected | "View in Detected" | to the Detected table |
Direct access on the rows
- The IP is a link that opens the radio's web interface in the browser. Next to it, the ping button opens a console with a continuous ping to that IP.
- "Mark" pins the baseline without leaving the row, and the × removes it.
- The Columns menu hides what you don't use. Fewer columns read faster, and the choice is remembered per table.
On the Map
- The side search drives the view: click a result and the map selects and centers it (zooming in if needed, never out).
Ctrl+ click on an AP leaves it alone on screen, and the same gesture on the same AP brings everything back. The cards have the equivalent button, "Mostrar solo este AP" or "Mostrar solo esta estación".Esccloses whatever is open: first the marked-point bubble, then a panel open inside a card, and then the card. It also exits the marking and node-placing modes.- While relocating a node with "Posición",
Enterapplies andEscputs it back where it was. - A card header's ← arrow goes back to the previous card, for example from a station to its AP and back, without hunting for it again.
- Each card's crosshair centers the map on the selection.
- Mark drops an ephemeral pin to copy coordinates, measure the distance to a node or annotate the position of a MikroTik station.
Each gesture is covered in detail in Coverage map.
Three diagnosis routes, chained
A customer complains. Their name in the Stations search → the signal cell's tooltip is the full diagnosis → if the cause smells like the sector, the antenna icon in the AP column shows their neighbors: just them, or everyone?
A sector under suspicion. AP table → its Status and the Spikes column → the Stations counter lists its clients → the ping icon launches the continuous ping to all of them, at once.
Closing the day. Click Critical (or Critical + Warning) → that is the work list → Report button with the "Critical + Warning" scope and out comes the PDF for tomorrow's technician.