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Submitted by davet on 2011/05/10 21:19

I noticed when I move and item with drag and drop that the HTML pane goes with it. However, if I copy and paste an item, the HTML pane is not copied. Is there a way to copy the item and the HTML pane together? I looked through the IQ User Manual, but could not find any way to do that.

Dave

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Hi Dave

because IQ is a bit complex, there are several says of copying.

Edit menu->Copy Special

This will offer several options, what you want is to copy the full item with all fields (not just the selected ones). The correct options for that are :

- Selected items

- Selected items and their subitems.

In the help file, this is "3.1.1.2 The Edit Menu (node 675)", maybe elsewhere too, not sure.

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Armando,

Thanks for your help. I looked at all the stuff you mentioned, and I do not see any way to copy an item and the HTML pane at the same time. I'm thinking of making a feature request if there is no way to do this. It seems logical to me that if a drag and drop (which is essentially a cut and paste) copies the HTML pane, then why shouldn't a copy and paste and cut and paste do the same thing?

Dave

These are 2 different things:

Drag-drop: It you don't hold the Ctrl key, it moves an item (from one grid to another, from one parent to another). If you hold Ctrl, it puts the item in another grid or it assigns it a new parent. It never creates a new item
Copy-Paste: can do like drag-drop, plus it can create a new item (different ItemID). Embedded HTML content will be duplicated, but HTM and MHT files did not. I'll fix that in v0.9.25U

HTH

Pierre

Hi Pierre -- so basically you'll now also duplicate files ? I think this is a good idea.

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[quote=Pierre_Admin]

These are 2 different things:

Drag-drop: It you don't hold the Ctrl key, it moves an item (from one grid to another, from one parent to another). If you hold Ctrl, it puts the item in another grid or it assigns it a new parent. It never creates a new item
Copy-Paste: can do like drag-drop, plus it can create a new item (different ItemID). Embedded HTML content will be duplicated, but HTM and MHT files did not. I'll fix that in v0.9.25U

HTH

Pierre

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Pierre,

Thanks for your explanation. That helped a me a great deal, and your changes in v0.9.25U should take care of my copy and paste needs.

I was not aware that you do a move by dragging and dropping without the control key, and that you get a copy (aka clone) when dragging and dropping with the control key. So I decided to test that out. That's neat, however, I could not get the move to work across grids. I reported this at the link below.

Possible drag and drop problem: http://www.sqlnotes.net/drupal5/index.php?q=node/2406

Dave

>[...]and that you get a copy (aka clone) when dragging and dropping with the control key.

Hi Dave, just to make this clear (users are often confused) : What you call a copy / clone is the same item but visible in different contexts.

2 possibilities:

1- When it's visible under various parents it's because IQ creates extra links to other parents,

2- when it's visible in several grids it's because the data in its fields is made to meet the grid filter.

The item is always the same (same ID)

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I see Pierre Answered. thanks.

@Dave : However, I'm not sure what you mean -- apart from the bug Pierre mentioned. When I copy as I explained in my last post everything is copied, event the HTML pane content (i.e.: if I paste the item under a parent or wherever, I now have 2 items with different Ids, and they both have content in the HTML pane, which is expected).

I can verify that by pasting in notepad and looking at the Xml.

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