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Feature Request FR-2251
Product Area Page Components
Status ROADMAP

22 Voters

Allow Copy Interactive Grid Column Value If the Column is Display only in EDIT mode

mathieumeeuwissen Public · Dec 16 2021

Idea Summary
According to document Doc ID 2555046.1 it is not possible to copy the text of a display only column in a Interactive Grid (IG) when it is in EDIT mode.

The document states that it is expected behavior.

However many of our users are complaining a lot about this situation. It is not very userfriendly if they need to switch back to read mode and change the selection to Cell selection before they can copy a text. Besides this we prefer to have the IG only in EDIT mode as if it is a tabular form or Excel tab.

In a classic report or interactive report the user is allowed to copy text of a td element. 
So why not for a IG?

Use Case
Allow users to copy text of a display-only column by just selecting the text

Preferred Solution (Optional)

This is planned for a future APEX release.

Known Duplicates

Known duplicates

FR-2879
FR-2879 Make copy cell content in IG easier

Comments

Comments

  • johannes.michler OP 1.7 years ago

    There are ideas for a workarund over there:

    https://tedstruik-oracle.nl/ords/f?p=25384:1161::::::

    but this default behavior makes no sense at all; we have e.g. a bunch of read only columns and then other columns where the user has to enter data. It is highly inconvenient that the user can not easily copy-paste those read-only cell-values.

  • matan.poran OP 1.1 years ago (edited 1.1 years ago)

    If anyone is looking for a simple fix, see Jan's solution here:
    https://www.oneoracledeveloper.com/2024/07/copy-cell-value-from-ig-revisited.html

  • john.snyders APEX Team OP 8 months ago

    These are the things that grid widget does not support copying to the clipboard

    • non-editable cell content when in edit mode (the subject of this idea)
    • header and group header rows/cells
    • aggregate rows/cells
    • control break rows/cells

    A case could be made that all the above should be possible to copy to the clipboard.

    Classic report, interactive report etc. don't do anything to allow copy to clipboard. It is just the built-in browser text selection and copy feature. Controls that have their own semantic selection should not support text selection but rather favor copy the selected semantic entities. Grid does not allow text selection except in the current edit cell if the item type supports it (and except in edit mode but this is a mistake and even then copy doesn't work for technical reasons involving the grid clipboard support). 

    What can be copied from the current edit cell depends on the type of item in the cell. For example a radio group should allow selecting radio button label text but a select list doesn't allow selection