Cut and Paste Elements in the Integration Canvas

You can cut and paste elements (actions and invokes) in the integration canvas. This enables you to move elements to other places in your integration and eliminates the need to recreate them. The cut and paste feature replaces the reposition feature in Oracle Integration Generation 2.

Guidelines

You can cut and paste individual elements or multiple contiguous elements.
You can cut and paste more logically complex actions such as a scope action and all the elements within its container or branching actions such as a switch action that includes multiple branching actions such as for-each actions inside it.
You cannot cut a trigger, either individually or as part of a group of selected elements.
You cannot cut an end node.
You cannot cut branches from some actions, such as a routing branch in a switch action.
If you cut an element and then decide you don't want to paste it, press the Esc key or right-click anywhere in the integration canvas and select Cancel Cut & Paste. This cancels the cut action.

Options for Cutting and Pasting Elements

You can cut and paste elements in the integration canvas with toolbar options above the integration canvas or with inline menus.

You can cut elements in multiple ways:

Select a single element or multiple elements (with the Selection Mode option) in the integration canvas and click in the toolbar.
Select a single element or multiple elements in the integration canvas, then click Actions and select Cut for the selected element or elements.

You can paste elements in multiple ways:

Select the element either before or after the location at which you want to paste it, then click Actions and select Paste, and either Before or After (depending on which element you selected).
Paste inside an action such as a scope or a branch of a switch action by clicking Actions and selecting Paste, and then Into.
Click Insert in the location at which to move the element, then select Paste.
Click Paste above the toolbar to paste the selected element in the appropriate location. The selections you make in the integration canvas determine when the toolbar options are enabled.

Example: Cut and Paste a Single Element

This example shows one way to cut and paste a single element. Other cut and paste methods are described in Options for Cutting and Pasting Elements.

Click the element to move. For this example, a map action is selected to move. This action enables Cut in the toolbar.
In the selected action, click Actions and select Cut.

An animated dashed box is displayed around the action to cut. You cannot click inside this box and perform any actions. You can also expand the number of elements to cut by dragging the dashed box around other elements.
Select the element next to where you want to paste the element.
Click Actions and select Paste, then After.
For this example, the trigger element is selected. As an alternative, you can also select the assign action and paste the map action before it. The menu context changes based on where you select to paste the element.

The map element is pasted to its new location after the trigger and before the assign action.

Example: Cut and Paste Multiple Elements

This example shows one way to use cut and paste multiple elements. Other cut and paste methods are described in Options for Cutting and Pasting Elements.

Click Selection Mode in the toolbar.
Drag your cursor around the elements to cut. For this example, a map, an invoke, and another map are selected.
Click Cut in the toolbar.
An animated dashed box is displayed around the elements to cut. You cannot click inside this box and perform any actions.
Select the element next to where you want to paste the element. For this example, the trigger is selected.
Paste the selected elements after the trigger in either of two ways:
1. Click Actions and select Paste, then After.
  or
2. Click Paste in the toolbar, then select After.
  
  The map, invoke, and map are pasted to their new location after the trigger and before the scope action.