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Copy Paste between modelers

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This, together with being able to select multiple elements would just be nice.

dont think this needs much explaining, seems like such a basic functionality.

Even if it is just containers with the classes and nested containers with classes.

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On the day larry Tesler died this appeared in the release notes of Mendix:

Because many users have indicated that copying and pasting microflows between app projects was their main reason for using Model Share, cross-project copy-paste will be added to Studio Pro very soon!

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Upvoting x1000

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I totally support this idea. Needed it last week, but unfortunately...

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Yes! ... And this should work even if the Modeler instances are different versions!

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Especially if you work on multiple branches. Sometimes you have to manually merge pages and microflows to resolve conflicts! Copy and paste between modelers would save a lot of time!

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I think the problem at the moment is that if you want to export an element you need to convert it to a building block, which you can export to a file, but it gets a whole bunch of other stuff exported with it too, which in turn also makes it incompatable with lower versions.
 

Wouldn't you just export it as a textstring and then unpack the string in another modeler?

something like:

<container class="x y z">
  <layoutgird width"col1 col10 col1">

no need for messy multiple files and modeler version numbers

Im no Developer, but would something like the above even be viable?

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Yep, would be awesome!

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That would be extremely usefull. Unfortunately, I can ony give one upvote.

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