# Copy & Paste Appfarm Create comes with rich possibilities for copy and paste at various levels. This article summarizes these features, including limitations. ## Duplicate, Cut, Copy and Paste Right-clicking a component, such as the UI Component [Container](/library/ui-components/container.md), gives you three options: **Duplicate**, **Cut** or **Copy to Clipboard**. **Duplicate** The selected element is copied and pasted directly (at the same location). This is handy for speeding up development by copying and making adjustments, or simply for making backups of a group of UI Components (duplicating the top-level container and hiding it by marking it `visible = false`) **Copy** The selected element is copied to the clipboard, where it can be pasted in a different location. **Cut** The selected element is removed from its current location and simultaneously copied to the clipboard, where it can be pasted in a different location.

**Paste** Having an element on the clipboard, you can right-click and **Paste** it. You are only allowed to paste it at a suitable place - e.g. you may not paste a Container inside an Action.

You may copy many settings of UI Components or Action nodes as well. For example, you may copy a text or a function from the UI Component [Text](/library/ui-components/text.md), and paste it on any other setting that has the same type of input data type. *In the example below, the Text setting expects a string input. The same goes for the Tooltip setting.*

## Things you may copy or cut This is a non-exhaustive list of components and settings you may copy, duplicate and/or cut in Appfarm Create: **Copy, Cut and Duplicate** * View/Dialog/Drawer * UI Component * App Variable, Runtime Property (in Apps and Services) * Action Variables, Action Params (in Apps and Flows * Action (in Apps, Flows and Services) * Object Class and Enum * Theme **Copy and Duplicate** * App * Service * Conditional Style **Copy** * Most settings, including conditions and functions, both on UI Components or Action Nodes * Object Class Permissions **Duplicate** * Data Source * Service Endpoint You may copy between solutions as well. Please see the section on Restrictions and limitations below. Here are a few examples of some of the hidden gems. The first example is exceptionally useful: Having a large Condition (or Function), you may copy it to another UI Component, or the If Action Node. You may also copy and paste the condition, and then use a [value processor](/reference/platform-concepts/value-processor.md) to invert the whole expression.

Copy a condition. Paste it somewhere else (and maybe use a value processor to invert it?)

Example: Copy Object Class Permissions, from the selected Object Class in the Global Data Model

Copy Permissions, from the Permissions meny

Paste value mappings. May be pasted to any Update Object or Create Object towards the same object class type.

Paste the Conditional Style somewhere else

## Copy between solutions You may copy a whole (single) App to the clipboard in Solution 1, and paste it into Solution 2. *Everything is copied, except Permissions and Resource Files. Permissions need to be manually set up in Solution 2, and resource files must be uploaded manually to Solution 2 (download from 1, batch-upload to 2)* When an App is copied from one solution to another, the Theme and Object Classes (and Enums) used by that App are copied as well. You may *not* merge these copied Object Classes with existing object classes: * In case you have a `Company` object already in solution B, and the copied app generated a `Customer` object class and you would like them merged: You must use [Find References](/reference/appfarm-create/find-references.md) on the `Customer` object class, and change all references to use the `Company` object class instead. * If you want to copy 2 Apps from solution A to B (or 1 App and 1 Service), you may currently *not* bundle them together in a single copy operation (2 copy operations will create duplicate object classes) If you need to copy more than 1 App, Appfarm has the power to copy a whole solution. In this case, you must contact Appfarm. Appfarm will create a snapshot of Solution A, and send it to Solution B. Appfarm will need owner/maintainer access to both solution A and B to perform this cross-solution snapshot. You will then be able to apply that snapshot to Solution B from the Deploy menu. *Note that applying this snapshot to Solution B will overwrite everything in Solution B.* ## Restrictions and limitations There are certain limitations when copying something from inside one App to another App or Service (in the same solution, or in another solution). * Copy/Paste inside the same App or Service: Everything is copied. * Copy from inside one App or Service to inside another App or Service (in the same solution, or another solution): *All data bindings are removed*, including functions with function parameters. All bindings to data sources are removed when you try to paste it into another App. For example: A group of UI Components, with a table listing all Projects: When copying this from App 1 to App 2, the data binding of that table is removed. The table is preserved, but you must connect it to a data source in App 2. The reason is that the Apps do not share the data sources. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.appfarm.io/reference/appfarm-create/copy-and-paste.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.