Paste controls from clipboard

Description

Pastes copied controls from the clipboard onto the current or separate UX component.

Discussion

To copy controls, first use the 'Copy selected controls to clipboard' option. If you want to duplicate a control in a UX Component, use the 'Duplicate selected controls' tool instead.

When controls are pasted from the clipboard, they can pasted Before selected control(s) or After selected control(s). For more control over what is pasted, use the Special... option.

Paste Controls onto a Component Using the "Special..." Option

After controls have been copied to the clipboard using the Copy selected controls to clipboard tool, they can be pasted into a UX Component. The Special... option can be used to have more control over what is pasted.

  1. Use the 'Copy selected controls to clipboard' option to copy a set of controls to the clipboard.

  2. Open a new component in the UX Builder. On the UX Controls page click the Menu dropdown in the toolbar. Select the Paste controls from clipboard > Special....

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  3. Select where you want to paste the controls in the controls tree and click the Paste from Clipboard button.

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  4. Click OK

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  5. The control will be added to the new component.

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