V13 - Copy/Paste to/from clipboard

[Ian Mitchell]

Has anyone got the "Copy to clipboard" (for a package) and 'paste from clipboard' to work in V13 Beta?
'Copy to Clipboard' is there, but when I copy a package, the 'paste elements(s) from clipboard' option is grayed-out.

[Eve]

You want "Copy Elements as XMI for Export"

[Ian Mitchell]

Yes - I discovered this late yesterday.
So why the change? Doesn't make sense - I don't want to do anything with XMI (even though I'm sure that EA is creating/pasting stuff in XMI format under the covers)
The V12 way of describing this function, as a simple copy/paste, seemed obvious. The v13 way requires the user to understand the internals of EA :-(

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Yes - I discovered this late yesterday.
So why the change? Doesn't make sense - I don't want to do anything with XMI (even though I'm sure that EA is creating/pasting stuff in XMI format under the covers)
The V12 way of describing this function, as a simple copy/paste, seemed obvious. The v13 way requires the user to understand the internals of EA :-(

Agreed...

Even if the same code is reused in other menu items, as Ian says, from the (naive/casual) user perspective, the previous naming was better.

Paolo

[Sunshine]

Yes - I discovered this late yesterday.
So why the change? Doesn't make sense - I don't want to do anything with XMI (even though I'm sure that EA is creating/pasting stuff in XMI format under the covers)
The V12 way of describing this function, as a simple copy/paste, seemed obvious. The v13 way requires the user to understand the internals of EA :-(

Agreed...

Even if the same code is reused in other menu items, as Ian says, from the (naive/casual) user perspective, the previous naming was better.

Paolo

I concur too. the previous name was more intuitive. 

[Eve]

Thank you for your feedback on the version 13 beta.

We appreciate that the rename (especially when combined with a new menu item using the old name) has caused a few misunderstanding.

The next version of EA is planned to provide more information for both items, referencing user goals instead of implementation details.