Copying Items to Multiple Locations
To speed up the process of building your machines, you can copy and re-use individual items, such as the point we copied earlier, or non-structural items such as alarms and routes.
A single item, such as an alarm, can be pasted to one place or automatically pasted to many places at once.
Copying an item to one place only
- Right-click the item and select Copy Branch to Clipboard.
- Now right-click where you want to place it and select Paste. The item will be pasted into the navigator tree below the item you selected.
Note: The pasted item will be placed below the selected item in relation to the machine hierarchy e.g. if you paste a point, it will be placed below the locations and schedule entries of the point above.
Copying an item to multiple places
- Right-click an item, such as a schedule entry, and select Copy Branch to Clipboard
- Now right-click a higher-level item such as a machine and select Paste
- You will be prompted to paste the item to all the appropriate places that exist below the item you have selected. Click Yes to confirm.
It is also possible to copy entire machines and file them away in storage so that they can be retrieved, re-named and re-used as many times as you like.
Last Reviewed: 08/Jun/2009 Source: Ascent Software Guide Revision 15 April 2009 - pages 48 & 49