copy/paste objects between experiments in eprime 2?

[David McFarlane]

liwenna,

I already replied to your post at the PST Forum, but would like to 
also post this here:

Sigh. So just now I took a look at this myself. For the record, I ran 
these tests using EP 2.0.8.22 under Vista (I do not, repeat, do not 
run subjects under Vista, only program development).

We need to pay attention to the source of the copy, the destination 
of the paste, the method of copy/paste, and the occurrence of name 
conflicts during the paste, as follows:

Source Copy: Structure, Design (e.g., Procedure), Browser
Destination Paste: Structure, Design (e.g., Procedure), Browser
Method: Drag & Drop, Context (right-click) menu, Edit menu
Name Coflict: absent or present

This gives us 54 cases (not counting all the Paste Conflict 
possibilities) which PST engineers should have tested for themselves, 
but as usual I will step into the gap and do this for them (or have 
they already reported this in a KB that I missed?) (yes, I seriously 
am a professional faultfinder, every organization should get one). 
But we may simplify this a little, as follows:

- Drag & Drop works from Structure, Design, and Browser, but only to 
the Design window of the destination.
- Both Edit > Copy and Context menu > Copy work from Structure and 
Browser windows; Copy is grayed out in the Design window.
- Both Edit > Paste and Context menu > Paste work in the Structure, 
Design, and Browser windows, as long as there is no name conflict. 
(To paste to the Structure window, you must have the Unreferenced 
E-Objects selected.)
- If an object with the same name already exists in the destination, 
you will get the Paste Conflict dialog. And here is where the real 
fun begins...
     - If you use Context menu > Paste in the Structure window and 
get a Paste Conflict, you also get a little checkbox off to the side 
that says "Default", and the dialog does not respond to any entries; 
furthermore, you cannot switch to any other window on the computer 
until that dialog is dismissed. You can only press Esc to dismiss the dialog.
     - Thereafter, further attempts to paste to the Structure or 
Browser windows will fail until you exit & restart E-Studio. You can 
still paste to the Design window, but you will get a Paste Conflict 
dialog even though the earlier paste failed (and even if that used a 
unique object name).

I'm sure I missed something, but you get the idea.

(Aside to Brandon: This is an example of the sort of documentation I 
would like to see PST provide for us, instead of me puzzling all this 
out for myself.)

OK, now somebody has to post this to Web Support to get their 
attention, and the more of us who do that the better.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


At 11/5/2009 10:01 AM Thursday, you wrote:
>So.. advertised as a feature of e-prime 2.0 I somehow can't copy/paste
>objects between e-studio files...
>Is anyone else having this 'problem' and (more importantly) did anyone
>manage to fix it if they had?
>
>I also posted on the PST forum but I'd like to hear from people here
>too.
>
>Best,
>
>liw


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