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Feature Request FR-3168
Product Area Application Builder
Status ROADMAP

13 Voters

Support for copy and paste elements in Page Designer

gabriel.diaz.arias Public
· May 26 2023

Idea Summary
Now we can duplicate an item or a region, and drag it where desired. This is not the best way to copy something when you have very large pages with lots of items or regions, as  the drag and drop can be very far from the original position, or in a sublevel in the tree that you might have not expanded. It would be nice to have a simple copy and paste function with keyboard shortcut support.

Use Case
Improve developer experience. With a no-code language like apex, copy and paste is a very common thing that should be as simple and fast as possible.

Preferred Solution (Optional)
Support copy and paste with shortcuts in page designer, copy an element, select destination and paste it. It would be even nicer if you could select multiple elements and copy them at once, or even between multiple pages of the same or different applications. Even better, a clipboard history.

This is currently on the roadmap for a future release of Oracle APEX.

Comments

Comments

  • ron.m OP 1.7 years ago

    I am also finding copy paste does not work correctly using an iPad either Safari or chrome  browser.

    When in designer and say adding a page region and wanting to copy the text from a region to another. using a Bluetooth mouse I can right click and highlight the text to copy but cannot paste the text. What ever text was previously in the buffer gets pasted.

    Is this a iOS issues or designer issue?

    Note I can copy paste within this text box with no issues.

    Just wanting the copy paste to work on an iPad when I am mobile and don’t want to take a laptop to make bug fixes to an app.