July 2009 - Posts - Dan Balsamo
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Dan Balsamo

July 2009 - Posts

  • Quickly Reorder Nodes in Data Source via Keyboard

    If you want to reorder nodes within a group in the Data Source pane it's rather tedious to have to select "move up/down" from the little dropdown menu. Instead there is a way to do it quickly via keyboard.



    1) Open the Data Source task pane.

     

     

     

    2) Hit F6 (notice the taskpane title bar turns orange)

     

     


    3) Hit Tab (notice a node in the Data Source Pane is selected)

     



    4) Up/Down arrow will change the node selection

     



    5) Hold down CTRL and then hit up/down arrow and the node will move!

     

     


    Note: This only works to reorder nodes or groups within a group. You can't move a node outside its parent.

     

    Additional Tip: 

    • You can use + or - on your numpad to expand or collapse nodes.
    • By using * you can open the entire branch and all the sub-branches


     

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