There are some downsides in that some people may never find out about the feature, but hopefully the more I post blogs or when I finally finish the manual, there will be lots more places to find out about these things. I really like that it’s implemented this way. If you’ve got some text selected in BE then it will copy the selection instead. And if you’re looking at a list or table view of CFs, then it will copy the entire found set of CFs to the clipboard. If you’re looking at a Custom Function and you don’t have an active field selection, then command-c will copy that CF to the clipboard. The reason I call this a hidden feature is that it’s implemented with zero interface. And it has the bonus feature of including any modifications you make to the name, parameters or calculation in BaseElements into the copied version. So the just released beta 7 version of BaseElements 3 includes the ability to copy Custom Functions directly out of BaseElements and paste them back into FileMaker. We’ve built this functionality into our own BaseElements plugin which we’ll be open sourcing soon so anyone can give it a try. There was a plugin ( since discontinued I think ) that had this feature, and the new ScriptMaster Advanced from 360Works has the ability to set and get the clipboard. Obviously this isn’t a built in function in FileMaker Pro and although it’s relatively simple on the mac using applescript, there is no easy way on Windows. Just open up BE, select the CF and hit copy and paste into FMP. Imagine that you’ve got an old analysis of a solution that has an older version of a Custom Function or a Script, and you need to put it back into your solution. One thing I’ve been wanting to do for ages in BaseElements is the ability to copy ( and maybe paste ) information out of BaseElements and back into FileMaker.
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