Copy Text functionality

RE: Copy Text functionality

Peter Lewis — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:02:23 GMT

I'm not aware of any action in Appian you can take that would copy to the clipboard other than the standard CTRL + C. Can you provide a bit more information about the scenario you have? Maybe there is something else that could work depending on what your users want to do.

RE: Copy Text functionality

soujanya B — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 06:19:31 GMT

Thanks Lewis.

Is there any other design approach to simulate this requirement ?

RE: Copy Text functionality

Peter Lewis — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:14:15 GMT

There is no change since this post - it's still not possible to copy / paste using a button in Appian.

RE: Copy Text functionality

soujanya B — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 04:30:30 GMT

Hi Sunil,

Did you get any approach to do this ?

Thanks

Soujanya

RE: Copy Text functionality

Shiva Valusa — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 09:44:27 GMT

Hi,
This cannot be possible in Appian as of now.

RE: Copy Text functionality

sravanis918 — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 07:51:52 GMT

Hi,

There is no way to copy the text on to the clipboard on button click. This functionality is not featured in Appian as of now.

RE: Copy Text functionality

gurdeeps — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 07:16:55 GMT

There's no way to save your clipboard based on button selection.

RE: Copy Text functionality

ankita0004 — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 17:00:05 GMT

Hi Sunil,

I don't think it is possible using ctrl+v to copy text.

You can use it like this

1. Click on copy button to copy text on clipboard

2. Than click on paste button to copy text in respective text field.

Code:

load(
local!a,
local!b,
{
a!columnsLayout(
columns:{
a!columnLayout(
contents: {
a!richTextDisplayField(
value:{
a!richTextItem(
text:"Test "
)

}
)

}
),
a!columnLayout(
contents: {
a!imageField(
images:{
a!documentImage(
document:226665,
link:a!dynamicLink(
saveInto:a!save(
local!a,"Test"
)
)
)
}
)

}
),
a!columnLayout(
contents: {
a!textField(readOnly: true())

}
),a!columnLayout(
contents: {
a!textField(readOnly: true())

}
),
}
),
a!columnsLayout(
columns:{
a!columnLayout(
contents: {
a!textField(
value:local!b,
saveInto:local!b
)

}
),
a!columnLayout(
contents: {
a!imageField(
images:{
a!documentImage(
document:226664,
link:a!dynamicLink(
saveInto:a!save(
local!b,local!a
)
)
)
}
)

}
),
a!columnLayout(
contents: {
a!textField(readOnly: true())

}
),a!columnLayout(
contents: {
a!textField(readOnly: true())

}
),
}
)
}
)

Thanks

RE: Copy Text functionality

Ashvin Kapur — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:10:01 GMT

I would suggest using the browser shortcut (CTRL+A) to highlight all, and then CTRL+C to copy. There's no way to save to your clipboard based on button selection.

RE: Copy Text functionality

Sunil Zacharia — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 14:04:40 GMT

Just a nice to have feature.. Currently a long text is first selected by dragging the mouse over and then it has to be copied and pasted in another screen.

Guess it's not possible to create a shortcut for this.

RE: Copy Text functionality

chandu — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 13:53:44 GMT

Hi Sunil, As far as I know This cannot be possible.BTW can you let us know your requirement. why you need to display a button for copying instead user can directly copy the text.