Submitted by LeftEccoForIQ on 2022/05/23 03:36

Say I have an item with four children. Child 1 is plain text, children 2-4 are active hyperlinks to URLs. Is there an easy way to move the 4 subitems into the HTML text associated with the parent item, retaining the active links on items 2-4?

I tried selecting all items, then copy (with different copy options) and paste into the item editor but that would paste only the descriptions of the hyperlinks. Also tried drag and drop to the document pane without success.

Thanks!

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Hm, what option did you select in the 'Copy items...' dialog? Tab-indented outline? With that option, I can't get it to work, nor do any of the others seems plausible. The dialog always pops up for me in those cases, so I can't 'just copy' as you suggested. Thanks!

Thanks for elaborating. I think I've identified the snag: The result depends on how the subitems are selected. If I select via keyboard (Shift + Arrow down), pressing ^c will not pop up the 'Copy items...' dialog and HTML paste works to paste hyperlinks into item editor / document pane.

However, when I select items via drag and drop on the header column, the dialog will pop up every time and the HTML formatting in the items does not reach the clipboard or is not pasted successfully.

I guess the drag and drop on the column leaves focus in a different place than keyboard or shift-click selection, which has an effect on what formatting is copied? It would be great if drag and drop selection on the header column could be handled just like shift-arrow or shift-click selection with the tree column in focus.

Cheers

OK, got it, I was able to reproduce it. I should be able to fix it: Option 1 Tab-Indended outline should paste correctly

In v120Pre14:

  • Fixed: Grid: Copy using Tab-Indented outline format did not paste in the Doc pane correctly (paste as HTML)
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