variable to clipboard

mbuitenkamp-4316 · October 20, 2020

Hi all,

I'm looking for a way to copy the text from an entryfield to the clipboard, and combine it with a little bit of text of my own.

So, someone puts text in entryfield_1, that text gets stored in variable_1, and then with an onMouseClick I want that text and my own text copied to the clipboard, so it can be pasted into a document.

Any way of doing this?

Cheers in advance

wheels · October 20, 2020

I've recently done something similar. I'm including an example that has a button and an entry field.

It puts content into the entry field using a Change Contents action, then it runs some JavaScript to copy it to the clipboard.

Hopefully it will be easy to understand, you need to Page Preview or Publish it for it to work.

- Joe

@mbuitenkamp.4316 (see the post below)

mbuitenkamp-4316 · October 28, 2020

Thank you for wanting to help!
However, when I import the pkg, all I see is a blank page?

wheels · October 28, 2020

It was blank, not sure how that happened.

It also needed some updates, so it's a good thing. It will work on either Desktop or Online now.

Thanks

Joe

mbuitenkamp-4316 · October 28, 2020

awesome!! I got it to work in my document! Thank you!

but... (of course there's a but), I need the entryfield to be multiline since we're asking users to create a list.
that isn't a problem, until I paste the contents from the clipboard and the neat little list just ends up as one very long single line.

so this:

item 1
item 2
item 3

becomes this:

item 1item 2item 3
Can that be fixed???

mbuitenkamp-4316 · October 28, 2020

edited to match my document, so you can see what's going on

mbuitenkamp-4316 · October 28, 2020

found it!

it was actually just a matter of making the 'Set To Update Clipboard' to multiline as well.

Yay, I'm so happy!
thank you

mbuitenkamp-4316 · October 29, 2020

okay, last question:
it works when the entryfield is single line, but it doesn't work when the entryfield is multiline

The variable gets set into the entryfield for copy, but in multiline the text doesn't get selected, and so it doesn't get copied.
Which is a shame because I really do need a multiline solution.

Any idea how to fix this?

tia

wheels · October 29, 2020

Hi Tia,

That's great you are figuring it out!

You need to change the execute copy script to use 'textarea' instead of 'input' see attachment

Joe

mbuitenkamp-4316 · October 29, 2020

perfect!

thanks a million

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