VSys One: Volunteer Management Software

Copy/Paste Is Your Friend

In many places in VSys One, complex objects like setup options, custom HTML blocks, merge templates, visibility rules and others are sometimes a pain to create and even harder to re-create somewhere else in VSys. An easy way to copy items from one site to another, or even to another VSys database, is using the Windows clipboard.

• Right-click on a supported object (in this case an action link) and select Clipboard -> Copy item to clipboard.
• Right-click in the same place to Clipboard -> Paste new item from clipboard to make a duplicate.
• Or right-click, Clipboard -> Paste new item from clipboard into the same type of tool on a different VSys Live site.
• Or paste it into an entirely different VSys Live database somewhere else!

Not everything works entirely right when you do this. For example, a custom HTML block that has a field in it that refers to an image that's not in the second VSys Live database won't actually link to an image that doesn't exist.

If you paste the contents of the Windows clipboard into Notepad, you'll see that all that's on the clipboard is some XML text. You can paste this into an e-mail and send that to someone else who can then copy the text to their clipboard then paste into their copy of VSys.