Using fields

Fields are values specific to a particular application or website. Each field has a descriptive name (eg. "Password"), and a value (the actual password itself). If an entry points to http://mail.yahoo.com/, and it has two fields Username and Password, the values of these two fields store the username and password for the Yahoo Mail service.

By default, every new entry is created with two fields Username and Password.

The left-middle pane (highlighted in red) is the fields pane.

There are a few basic tasks related to fields management:

• Add a new field. Select Add from the context menu, then enter the field name and value.
  

  If you have defined global variables, the + button will be enabled for you to insert one of them into the field value.

  You can embed [Tab] and [Enter] keystrokes into the field value by checking the Contains escape codes checkbox. Then all occurrences of "\t" and "\n" will be interpreted as [Tab] and [Enter] respectively. A double-backslash will be interpreted as a single backslash character. This is useful for cases like credit card numbers, where you may need to enter the field in four separate parts delimited by tabs.

  If you check the Hide password value checkbox, it indicates that the field value is a password, and its value will be masked with *.

  If you check the Allow multiple lines of text checkbox, you will be allowed to enter more than one line of text into the field value textbox.

  The Generate button can be used to generate a random password. The Generate and copy to clipboard button does the same thing, but also copies the generated password to the system clipboard. See Preferences/Password Generation to find out more about changing the parameters for password generation.

• Edit an existing field. Double-click on the target field, or select Edit from the context menu. A separate dialog box will pop up that allows you to make the necessary changes.

• Reorder the fields. Using drag-and-drop to change the order of the fields. The order of the fields does not play any direct role in KeyPass.

• Delete an existing field. Select the field and press [Del], or select Delete from the context menu.

• Copy to clipboard. Copy the value of the selected field to the clipboard.

You can insert the value of a field into any application by doing the following:

• Position the mouse cursor over the target text field. In the example below, the browser is pointing to the Yahoo Mail web site, and the mouse cursor is positioned over the password text field.

• Press the hotkey. By default, the hotkey is [Ctrl-Right-Mouse-Button], which means you should hold down the [Ctrl] key, then click on the right mouse button once, then release the [Ctrl] key.

A popup menu will appear, listing all the entries with fields defined.

• Select the target entry, then the target field. In the example below, the Yahoo Mail entry is selected, then the Password field is selected. The password value is inserted into the password text field by KeyPass.