Submitted by Armando on 2010/05/11 23:33
Right now, AFAICT, only in a few situations do drop down menus appear in the grid when F2 is pressed (calendar, read-only drop down lists mainly), and in the grid I think only the dates will show the calendar -- any other drop down menu won't ever show. Actually, editing these fields (with preconfigured lists) can be quite a challenge in the properties pane.
 
This should be standardized so that all drop down menus appear when pressing F2 in the grid or the properties pane.
 
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[quote=Armando]This should be standardized so that all drop down menus appear when pressing F2 in the grid or the properties pane.
 
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I am a big fan of consistency, so I agree there should be a standard way to do it. I think in Windows it's usually Alt-down arrow to open a drop down, but that moves items around in the grid. Is F2 a standard button for doing it?

agreed
F2 should be universally usable for this
 

 agreed. Consistency is keys to facility user comfort. And shortcuts should mirror (as often as possible) universally known shortcuts for same reason.

Mantis :
 
Update Issue0984 Drop down menus in grids and Properties pane : should all be triggered by F2  Bugaverage