Copy and Paste

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The standard Copy and Paste commands are available in many areas in SysCAD. However ther are some special uses of copy and past, especially in relation to tags.

In any pop up windows or dialog boxes, the changeable fields can be edited using the standard windows Cut, Copy and Paste commands. Highlight the required characters then use Copy <Ctrl+C>, Cut <Ctrl+X>, Paste (Ctrl+V) or Undo <Ctrl+Z> as required.

When referencing SysCAD tags in some SysCAD windows, for example MS Excel Report, PGM or Chemical Reaction files, full tags are normally required. To obtain a full tag, the easiest way is to copy it from the SysCAD Access Window.

For example, open the Access Window for a Feeder-Cross Page Connector unit by right clicking on the unit from a Graphics Window. (In this example, it is unit - MakeUpWater.) Select the tag Qm_Reqd by left clicking on tag's text string to highlight it, press <Ctrl+C> to copy the full tag to the clipboard (in this example, it is tag MakeUpWater.Qm_Rqd (kg/s)). To place the tag onto the Trend List View of a Trend Window, left click on an empty row and press (Ctrl+V) to paste the tag.

Copy Options from the Access Window Right Click Pop Up Window:

From the Access Window, left click to select the tag(s) to be copied, right click on the tag to bring up the quick pop up list.

• Choose Copy Full Tag to copy the Full tag name [eg, MakeUpWater.Qm_Rqd (kg/s)].

• Choose Copy Tag to copy the tag name [useful for SysCAD reports, eg, Qm_Rqd (kg/s)].

• Choose Copy to copy the Full tag name if selection is made on the text part of the variable, otherwise if selection is made of the value part of the variable, then the value will be copied.

Copying and pasting multiple tags:

To copy multiple tags, select the tags by dragging with the mouse button to make a block and press <Ctrl+C> to Copy or right click and choose Copy Tag if full tags are NOT required (eg, when building a SysCAD report). When pasting multiple tags into Excel or text files, press (Ctrl+V).

To paste multiple tags onto the trend page, the same block (or bigger) must be marked before pressing (Ctrl+V) to paste. For example, five tags from the access window were highlighted and copied onto the clipboard, to paste the five tags onto the trend window, highlight five empty rows on the trend window and press (Ctrl+V). If only two rows were highlighted, then only two tags will be pasted.

Fields in a Trend Window can also be copied and pasted. To do so, click to highlight a tag or value, press <Ctrl+C> to Copy and (Ctrl+V) to Paste. If the field already contains data, pasting information to this filed will overwrite the original data. If a value is to be pasted into ten cells, highlight the required cells and press (Ctrl+V) to paste. This works for min and max values in the trend window.

NOTE: Copy and Paste commands are also available from the Trend Window Right Click pop up list.