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Information valid for AMI version 8.0 initial release |
Summary
The purpose of the Clipboard gadget is to provide a mechanism for a user to select objects, attributes and other data elements from one object or gadget and make them available to another object or gadget.
It is important to note that the clipboard mechanism works irrespective of whether the Clipboard gadget is visible or even included in the current workspace (i.e. this gadget is just a view on an internal clipboard mechanism that is part of AMI).
The clipboard can hold many pages of data. A new page is added every time something is copied onto the clipboard using a gadget's 'Copy' menu action, and each page can hold multiple items; however, each entity on the page will be of the same data type (or flavour). For example, if the user selects three attributes on the Attribute Gadget and selects 'Copy' from that gadget's Action menu then a new page will be added to the clipboard with these three attributes on it. The 'Copy' action is local to that gadget, so only the elements selected on that gadget are copied; any data selected in a different gadget (and hence possibly of a different data type) will not be copied. It therefore follows that each page in the clipboard will only ever hold data elements of the same type.
You can move through the clipboard pages using the Next and Previous buttons in the Header Area.
Items in the Clipboard gadget have checkboxes next to them, which are initially ticked. When you paste from the clipboard into another gadget, any unticked items on the clipboard are not included as part of the paste operation.
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Gadget Action Menu Items
Remove Page
Removes the current page from the clipboard.
Remove All
Removes all pages from the clipboard.
Turn Basket Mode On
If enabled by the administrator, and turned on in the action menu, copying items to the clipboard will attempt to add those items to the currently displayed clipboard page (assuming it contains the same data type). If the current clipboard page is a different data type then a new clipboard page will be added.