Pasting an Entry to the Create Panel

After a Cut or Copy operation, you can choose to paste an entry directly to the Create panel. This speeds up the process of creating a number of new, but similar entries.

Pasting an entry to the Create panel works in one of two ways:

• The paste action removes information from the Create panel before pasting the entry

• The paste action does not clear data from the Create panel before pasting. This is useful when you want to create an entry that contains the combined characteristics of two or more entries.

The paste method is specified in the Deja.properties file on the directory server. By default, Deja does not clear data from the Create panel before pasting. See "Standard Create Parameters" for information on changing the default paste method.

1. After a cut or a copy operation, click on the Create icon, or select Create from the Entry menu.

2. Select Paste to Create Panel from the Edit menu.

   If you are in the first section of the Create panel, the entire entry is pasted into the panel, including the name and naming attribute.

   If you are in the Select Object Classes section of the Create Panel (you have already named and selected a naming attribute for the entry) only the object classes and attributes are pasted into the Create panel.

   If you are in the Attributes section of the Create panel (you have already named and selected a naming attribute for the entry, and have selected object classes for the entry) only the attributes are pasted into the Create panel.

   If you have selected a naming attribute and named your entry, and the pasted objectclasses do not contain the selected naming attribute, you get an error message. You must either change the naming attribute by going back to the first step, or select an object class that contains the pasted naming attribute.

3. Click Done when the entry is complete to add it to the directory.