Copy/Paste Record

Use these buttons to copy and paste records.

UPDATE_DEFAULT contains a Copy Record and Paste Record button allowing users to copy a record and create a new one by pasting the data from the clipboard. To do this, add the Copy Record button to the Expand header and the Paste Record button to the New header of the desired info area. For further details, see Standard Headers.

The buttons calls the Command action with the Command argument set to Clipboard/Copy and Clipboard/Paste respectively.

Copy/Paste Record and Access Rights

Depending on the defined access rights and field attributes pasting a record from the clipboard results in the following behavior:

The Paste Record button is deactivated if

  • the Expand view is in View mode
  • the clipboard does not contain a record from the same (base) info area
  • the Expand view is in Edit mode but the user has insufficient update rights.

These conditions are checked again when the paste command is handled.

Field values are not pasted if:

  • the field is not part of the Details control
  • the field is a Z-field
  • the field in the Details control has the Readonly attribute set to true.
  • the field is set to read-only in the data model (Fields > Properties > "readonly")
  • the user does not have sufficient conditional access rights for the field (in New mode: Deny New, in Update mode: Deny Update when updating a value or Deny Deletion when deleting a value).