Aaagh! Paste it there, dammit!
There must be a way to do this, but I can't figure it out.
I'm focussed on a project in Projects view, and want to paste actions I’ve just copies from another project; but when I paste, nothing happens, or at least it didn't seem to until I looked at All Items and there were dozens of new projects made from the pasted actions. I tried drag-and-drop, but this just made links in the notes field of the target project. What is the method of copying actions from one project to another? I have a pile of projects, each of which needs broadly the same list of actions, so it makes sense to copy and paste. Your help much appreciated. |
Something like pxldot's project template script might be the best solution [url]http://pxldot.com/projects[/url]
More generally, paste actions and action groups into an existing project by selecting a task in that project (creating a blank one if necessary - you can delete it afterwards). (If your selection is at project level rather than task level, you will just create sister projects, rather than child tasks and task groups) |
PS
When things are not pasted at the level you want, you can promote and demote task ⇄ project with [B]Edit → Outlining → Indent[/B] and [B]Edit → Outlining → Outdent[/B] ( [B]⌘][/B] to demote from project level to a child task of the project above ) ( Also bear in mind that the current view settings may be making pasted material invisible, on the basis of its status, dates etc ) |
I don't think I would have hit on that unintuitive solution, so thanks very much for the tip.
You suggest that pasting while a selection is active at the project level will create sister projects may be true when the selected project isn't in a folder, but my experience of this problem was that when I had a project selected within a folder the pasted actions appeared as new projects under Library. I've been expecting it to work in the same way as the Finder, in which a file on the clipboard will be pasted into a selected folder. The effect in OF is as if the clipboard contents were pasted into at the root level. I hope this will be handled differently in OF2. Thanks again for taking the trouble to answer. |
[QUOTE=coconino;126554]I hope this will be handled differently in OF2[/QUOTE]
You could get that logged as a request by sending a quick note through [B]Help → Send Feedback[/B], perhaps with a link to this thread. |
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