Now that you’ve chosen a view and an overview, you’ll arrive at your board. In this step, we explain how you can easily navigate within a vPlan board.

Different buttons

At the top left of every view, you’ll find the Today button with arrows next to it.
If you click the Today button, you’ll immediately jump to the period that includes today. If you click the arrows next to it, you move one period backward or forward.

Periods

At the top right of your board, in the calendar and list view, you’ll find the standard periods available in vPlan. Here you can choose between day, week and month in the calendar, or day, week, month, year or always in the list view.

In the timeline, this works slightly differently. Instead of selecting a period, you choose the scale of your timeline in the top right. You can select hours, day, week, month, quarter or year.

Switch axes

Are you working in the calendar view? Then you can switch the axes.

By default, the days are displayed on the vertical axis and your chosen element (stages, statuses, or resources) on the horizontal axis. With the switch axes button: , you can flip these axes. You can find this button below the Today button in the top left of your board.

Full screen view

If you want to display as much planning information as possible and as little unnecessary information as possible on your screen, you can use the Full screen view button in the top menu bar: . You can find this button in the top bar of vPlan, above the search bar. It shows vPlan in full screen and automatically hides your browser menu bar and the vPlan menu bar. By clicking the icon, you can easily turn full screen mode on or off.

Tip

You can quickly return to the original view by pressing the ESC key.

Backlog

At the top right, you’ll find the icon for the Backlog: . Your backlog is the place where you create all your work, or where orders from integrations automatically appear. In other words, it’s the place for work that still needs to be planned.

From the backlog, you can drag cards into your board. In the backlog, you can make sure you only see the information that is important to you at that moment. You can do this by filtering or sorting.

Want to learn more about the backlog? Read this article.

Keyboard shortcuts

In vPlan, you can use keyboard shortcuts to quickly open and close different functionalities. Below you’ll find an overview of all available shortcuts per view.

List

Action	Apple	Windows
Go back to today/current period	Option + T	Alt + T
Go to day period	Option + D	Alt + D
Go to week period	Option + W	Alt + W
Go to month period	Option + M	Alt + M
Go to year period	Option + Y	Alt + Y
Open or close the backlog	Option + B	Alt + B
Open or close the filter	Option + Shift + F	Alt + Shift + F
Open or close the columns	Option + Shift + C	Alt + Shift + C
Open or close Google Maps	Option + Shift + M	Alt + Shift + M
Close everything (deselect collection and close backlog)	ESC	ESC
Go one period back	Option + left arrow	Alt + left arrow
Go one period forward	Option + right arrow	Alt + right arrow

Calendar

Action	Apple	Windows
Go back to today/current period	Option + T	Alt + T
Go to day period	Option + D	Alt + D
Go to week period	Option + W	Alt + W
Go to month period	Option + M	Alt + M
Go to year period	Option + Y	Alt + Y
Open or close the backlog	Option + B	Alt + B
Open or close the filter	Option + Shift + F	Alt + Shift + F
Open or close the preferences	Option + Shift + P	Alt + Shift + P
Close everything (deselect collection and close backlog)	ESC	ESC
Go one period back	Option + left arrow	Alt + left arrow
Go one period forward	Option + right arrow	Alt + right arrow

Timeline

Action	Apple	Windows
Go back to today/current period	Option + T	Alt + T
Go to day period	Option + D	Alt + D
Go to week period	Option + W	Alt + W
Go to month period	Option + M	Alt + M
Go to year period	Option + Y	Alt + Y
Open or close the backlog	Option + B	Alt + B
Show or hide capacity on the board	Option + C	Alt + C
Show or hide resources on the board	Option + R	Alt + R
Show or hide the column list on the left	Option + L	Alt + L
Group timeline	Option + G	Alt + G
Collapse all or expand all	Option + H	Alt + H
Open or close workload	Option + W	Alt + W
Open or close the filter	Option + Shift + F	Alt + Shift + F
Open or close the columns	Option + Shift + C	Alt + Shift + C
Close everything (deselect collection and close backlog)	ESC	ESC
Go one period back	Option + left arrow	Alt + left arrow
Go one period forward	Option + right arrow	Alt + right arrow

Kanban

Action	Apple	Windows
Go back to today/current period	Option + T	Alt + T
Go to day period	Option + D	Alt + D
Go to week period	Option + W	Alt + W
Go to month period	Option + M	Alt + M
Go to year period	Option + Y	Alt + Y
Open or close the backlog	Option + B	Alt + B
Open or close the filter	Option + Shift + F	Alt + Shift + F
Open or close the preferences	Option + Shift + P	Alt + Shift + P
Close everything (deselect collection and close backlog)	ESC	ESC
Go one period back	Option + left arrow	Alt + left arrow
Go one period forward	Option + right arrow	Alt + right arrow