Welcome > Form Designer module > Form controls > Copy and paste a control on a form

Copy and paste a control on a form

  1. Select a control on the form.
  2. On the Action bar, click Copy Copy and then click Paste Paste.

    • You can also cut and paste a form control.

    • You can select multiple controls and cut or copy them and paste them to another position on the same form, a tab or a different form. To multi select controls, use keyboard and mouse or left click the control and hold for 2 seconds and then click on the other controls.

    • When you paste a Button control or an Embedded Page control onto a new form, the Confirmation Message property and the Embedded Page property may apply a different mapping if the target form contains a control or variable with the same name.

Copy and paste controls between phone and tablet forms

Copy controls from a phone form and paste them to tablet form and vice versa.

Note You can copy controls from a touch-enabled form to another touch-enabled form. You cannot copy controls from a touch-enabled form to a non-touch enabled form.
  1. Select controls on the phone form.
  2. On the Action bar, click Copy Copy.
  3. Switch to Tablet form and click anywhere on the form.
  4. On the Action bar, click Paste Paste.
  5. Click Save.