Smartforms - Cut and Paste

[Former Member]

I need to cut and paste a piece of a form that has several subwindows (or maybe the're nodes - I'm new to Smartforms and may be using the wrong terms) into another form. Is there a way to cut-and-paste between forms?

[Former Member]

I dont think so! But you can copy the original form into a new form and remove the un-wanted windows/nodes.

[Former Member]

Therein lies my quandry - the work I'm doing is to modify an existing form. I'm making minor mods to the top 2/3 and need to replace the bottom 1/3 with the bottom 1/3 from another form. Looks like I'll just have to bite the bullet and build it from scratch. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Clemenss]

Hi Jane,

I thinks there is a way to circumvent biting the bullet:

Go to what you need from the source form, use Utilities->Download Subtree.

Then edit the target form and use Utilities->Upload. Chose the file created with download. It is copied to the clipboard. Then select (double-click) the target node under which you want to place it. Then Menu Edit->Node->Paste.

Regards,

Clemens

[former_member182670]

It is possible to copy and paste parts of SmartForm as long as you do it in te same SAP Gui window.

Just right click on element in tree and choose copy. Then press 'Back' button, enter name of target form, open it in change mode and paste.

It just does't work if you want to copy between two SAP GUI sessions.

[Former Member]

This was handed over to another programmer who knew what he was doing.