Bug 339032

Summary:	Add "Duplicate" action for Report Designer
Product:	[Applications] KEXI	Reporter:	peter mueller <p-muellerzh>
Component:	Reports and Printouts	Assignee:	Kexi Bugs <kexi-bugs>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	staniek
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	junior-jobs, usability
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	Copy paste related Bugs

Description peter mueller 2014-09-12 14:25:34 UTC

Add please a "duplicate" Function in the Reporting Engine. When I Put a "Field" to the Report I have to ajust the Fieldsize. Here now comes the duplicate in process. Adding 10 or more fields can be simplified with duplicate. All fields have the same size and only the text or other object information as color etc. must be changed. The duplicate Button is standard in all Mac OS X database from Filemaker, 4D, Openbase, Frontbase. It saves a lot of time - as adjusting the field size is not that responsive compared as example with Sybase Powerbuilder.

Comment 1 Adam Pigg 2014-09-12 17:18:04 UTC

Is copy/paste not enough?  Would a duplicate function be a combination of copy + paste?

Comment 2 peter mueller 2014-09-13 12:37:04 UTC

Created attachment 88693 [details]
Copy paste related Bugs

Comment 3 peter mueller 2014-09-13 12:46:24 UTC

(In reply to Adam Pigg from comment #1)
> Is copy/paste not enough?  Would a duplicate function be a combination of
> copy + paste?

The judgement is not to use the "Clipboard". As over time - Clipboard works different in every Operating System. (Early just text information, later rtf, some limitation on size, other limits on
graphics formats as jpg, png). Structured information may loose their information on many systems.

A second issue is "Bug tracking" on Clipboard information. Check out the attachement.

Therefore the "Duplicate" function is more stable. If I pick a field: Text, Image etc. and add metadata as example: Form of the field - rectangular rounded edges - background color jade and the size is 2 cm in lenght and 0.5 cm in high everything works flawless with the Duplicate function.

Comment 4 peter mueller 2014-09-13 13:00:23 UTC

(In reply to Adam Pigg from comment #1)
> Is copy/paste not enough?  Would a duplicate function be a combination of
> copy + paste?

Yes, duplicate is a single function which contains copy and paste

Comment 5 Jarosław Staniek 2014-09-13 20:08:51 UTC

Created a dedicated thread for longer discussion.. this bugzilla isn't editable ;/

https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=220&t=122843

Comment 6 Jarosław Staniek 2014-09-13 20:20:28 UTC

Since Forms support the Ctrl+drag action, changing the scope to reports only, if you don't mind.

Comment 7 Jarosław Staniek 2014-09-13 20:25:06 UTC

@Peter By the way, if possible please let's use links to external documents instead of pasting a 1.5MB copy here. Thanks :)