Copy Data to the Clipboard
Use this effect to copy data to the clipboard from your data sources. This can be useful if you want to leave some data on the clipboard as a side effect, or if you want to use the clipboard as a means to exchange data with anoter application. Data is placed on the clipboard immediately when the effect is executed.
- In the Name box, optionally enter a name. The name is displayed in the action tree, if a name is not entered, a summary of the effect is displayed.
- In the Description box, optionally enter a description.
- Then do one of the following:
To do this | Follow these steps |
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Copy objects and make them available to other operations within your application. | Click Data Source and select a data source of type Object. |
Exchange data between two Genus applications by placing XML-data on the clipboard. | Click Data Source and select a data source of type Schema. |
Copy files. | Click Data Source and select a data source of type File. |
Copy text. | Click Text, and then compose a text by typing text, and inserting formulas and fields from your data sources. The text can contain line breaks and sections used for collecting data from repeating groups. See the article Generate Dynamic Values for Text Fields for more information. |