This article covers the following topics:
Background information
Copy/paste & copy/paste special are of course also in ETS Professional standard functionality, this app adds extra functionality via a third variant called copy/paste extended, with the ability to influence every element to be copied along with its properties (including among other things, the assignment of Individual Addresses) at its destination
Activation
Follow these instructions in order to activate the app:
- Purchase a license from MyKNX
- License it as explained here
- No additional *.etsapp file needs to be installed
Use of the Extended copy app in ETS
Example: most common use case = device copy
Paste: Copies the device
Paste special: Extra functionality for Group Addresses: Don't copy, Keep, Create new Group Addresses in a specific middle group
Paste extended
- Extra functionality for devices
- Individual Address: offset, fill up, start with, append
- Renaming description: replace text/regular expression
- Extension: prefix/suffix
- Extra functionality for associations (Group Addresses)
- Don't copy, Keep, Create new Group Address in middle group
- Keep Central
- Extra functionality for building parts
- Building parts: Lose, Keep, Create
- Renaming Name: replace text/regular expression
- Extension: prefix/suffix
- Extra functionality for trades
- Lose
- Keep
Preview
In order to evaluate the effect of the prepared paste extended operations, their virtual results can be checked in advance, this preview exists out of several parts:
- Topology
- Group Addresses
- Buildings
- Trades
Within the preview the following coloring applies:
- Black: the target can be generated as prepared
- Orange: the target can be generated but exactly as prepared, the default copy rule will be applied
- Red: the target cannot be generated at all, e.g. at least one part is out of range (overflow)