Copying and Pasting Diagram Object Links

You can copy and paste diagram links, attachments, statement links, resources, and flow line links in the same diagram, another diagram in the same process map or in another process map. You cannot copy and paste drilldowns as links.

Prerequisites

•You must have edit permissions to be able to copy the selected diagram objects links.

•The diagrams from which you want to copy and paste the diagram objects links must be an unlocked draft. For more information about unlocking process diagrams, see Unlocking Process Diagrams.

Procedure

1.Click the Processes link on the navigation bar and open the process diagram from which you want to copy diagram object links.

2.Click the Edit diagram button and select the object that you want to copy the links from.

3.Click Properties and then in the panel that opens, click the Links tab.

4.From the links that are listed, select the links that you want to copy and then click Copy in the banner that opens below the tabs in the panel.

5.Navigate to one or more destinations by using the diagram explorer or the navigation bar. Select one or more objects and then click the Paste button in the banner at the top of the canvas.
Note: Links are pasted on appropriate objects. For example, if you copy resources and an attachment and then you select a flow line to paste, only the attachment is pasted.

Points to note

•You can paste the diagram object links as long as the banner at the top displays the Paste button. However, it might briefly disappear when moving to other processes, which are in view mode, but it reappears when you enter the edit mode.

•The Paste button in the banner at the top is enabled only after you select diagram objects.

•You can paste the diagram object links in another diagram in a new browser tab too.

•To stop pasting the diagram object links, click the Close button on the banner.

•The buffer is cleared after your session ends. So, to paste the diagram object links from the previous session, you have to select the same diagram object links again after you start a new session.

•The buffer is cleared if you copy any normal text. That is, you can copy either the diagram object links or normal text at a time.

•Data table attachment is pasted as an empty table.

•You can also undo or redo the copy-paste operation.

•The Copy button is unavailable for drilldowns. However, the button becomes available if you select a drilldown with other links, but the drilldown is not copied into the buffer.