Cut, Copy, and Paste Operations

Creating Speech Applications with Dialog Designer > Cut, Copy, and Paste Operations

	Cut, Copy, and Paste Operations

Dialog Designer supports copy and paste operations for elements of an expanded node (such as logic, use of resources) from one project to another. Dialog Designer also supports copying, cutting, and pasting a set of nodes and supporting resources, or a set of resources including prompts, phrases and grammar, in the following scenarios:

From one project to another project

From within a project to another part of a project within the same call flow

Upon using the copy, cut, and/or paste operations, all names are preserved unless conflicts are discovered, in which case modified similar names are auto-generated.

To invoke a copy or cut (and eventually paste) operations (in the Call Flow Editor), select a node, resource, prompt, phrase, or grammar, then right-click to select Copy or Cut. The selected object is copied to the Dialog Designer clipboard.

To paste the clipboard object, similarly, click in the location where the object should be pasted, then right-click to select Paste. The copied object should appear, with the same or modified name, depending on whether the operation was performed in the same project or between different projects, respectively.

Caveats

Before using the cut, copy, and paste operations within Dialog Designer, Avaya recommends reviewing the following caveat statements to better understand the functionality and limitations:

When cutting from a call flow, nodes or items from the source call flow are deleted. Any variables that are defined by the call flow are also deleted.

When copying across projects, the entire resource dependency tree is copied to the target project (prompts, grammars, phrases, variables, and so on).

When the resource dependency tree is copied, certain variables may not be copied because they are implicitly created by other project elements (for example, a Prompt & Collect node). So if the project element is not part of the clipboard contents, then the variable may not be copied to the target project.

When copying across projects with multiple languages, Dialog Designer attempts to determine where language resources belong upon pasting. If there are different languages in the source or target project, after-paste manual steps may be required to get things aligned properly.

To undo a copy and paste operation, use ctrl-Z (however, after a Save has been applied, a copy and paste cannot be undone).

When splitting large callflows into multiple callflows, cut should be used to move nodes from one flow to the other rather than copy. Copy will result in creating variables. Cut will move the nodes from one flow to the other.