K2 Studio Design Canvas - Mouse Gestures

Mouse gestures speed up the design process when building a process. When working in K2 Studio a user can draw certain letters on the design canvas while holding down the right mouse button and the designer will place certain controls on the canvas relevant to the letter that was drawn.

For example, drawing an A on the screen will insert an activity onto the process design canvas. Also, once an activity is on the screen you can draw on the activity object itself to specify event types for that particular activity. For example, if you draw an M on the activity it will add the E-mail Event to the Activity.

Below is a list of commonly used mouse gestures:

A, O – Create a Default Activity on the canvas
M – Create an E-mail event
Right-click canvas – Bring up context menu
Right-click activity – Bring up activity context menu
Right-click event – Bring up event context menu
Drag – Move an activity by clicking on the icon (located in the upper left corner of the activity object)
Double-click on Activity/Event Icon – Run the Property Wizard for selected object
Double-click on Activity/Event Name – Start editing the name
Double-click on Activity Description – Start editing the description
Scroll Wheel – Scroll the canvas up and down

In the following figure you can see how a mouse gesture is drawn by creating an A on screen to insert an activity:

There are also some additional combination mouse and keyboard shortcuts available. Below is a partial list of some common combined items:

CTRL + Click-Select – Clicked-on object will be added/removed from selection (toggled)
CTRL + Scroll Wheel – Zoom in and out
SHIFT + Mouse-Move – Holding the SHIFT key while moving the mouse over the Document View will show an insert location for a new line of text
Click + Mouse-Move – Holding the SHIFT key while clicking the mouse left button over the Document View will add a new line of text at the indicated position
CTRL + Drag – (from the appropriate location on an activity) Draw a line