Copy or 'paint' data command

[Data Wrangler]

It would be nice to have a routine that could copy selected fields from one object to another. Say you have a valve in a line and added another. It would be nice to 'copy attributes' and have the service, description, model number etc. copied across.

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[PeterJ]

I have written such a tool, will post it here later this week

[dave]

Thanks Peter! I wish I was PeterJ :)

[PeterJ]

Here are 2 versions of the pidcopy tool.
-pidcopy is easy to install, but works slow (configuration in .ini file)
-pidcopy2 works fast, but requires some database manipulation because the configuration file is in the projdata database.

check http://www.davetyner.com/forum/showthread.php?t=257
for automatic loading of lisp files.

This code is part of the free additions I offer to all my clients, hope it helps you.

[dave]

Peter, thanks for this routine. I just tested it out and it works pretty good. Question, is it supposed to work on user added fields as well?

I have all of my equipment created under the AT_EQUIP tag type. In the Equip field I added:

PRL_LN01
PRL_LN02
etc..

When I did a pidcopy command on my equipment, it only updated the EDESC field not the PRL_LN01... fields. The first thing I checked was PA but all of the custom fields are enabled.

[PeterJ]

Dave,

add the new fields you want to copy to the pidcopy.ini or in the pidcopy table.

[Data Wrangler]

Wow, very nice... pretty much what I was describing. Customizable, too... Thank you very much!

Derek

[dave]

Peter, just getting back to this. I added my custom fields to the pidcopy.ini but they still aren't being copied when I run the COPD command. This is the case only on my AT_EQUIP tag type. Any ideas?

[PeterJ]

which version are you using, the one with the ini file or with the database table ?

[PeterJ]

sorry, stupid question, you mention the pidcopy.ini .... I'll give it a test

[HybridAWD]

so which one is the ideal one to use? When it's said to be "slow" how slow are we talking?

[PeterJ]

on my system : 6 seconds for the ini, 1 sec for the database. And that for each item you select that needs to get the data.

[PeterJ]

Dave, can you mail me your pidcopy.ini ? I tried to copy new fields and it works fine

[dave]

Here you are Peter, thanks! I renamed it to pidcopy.txt for the upload.

[PeterJ]

Dave, the [AT_EQUIP]-group is present at 2 locations in the INI file (You addeda new one while it was already present). the program will take the last one ...

[dave]

doh! Thanks PeterJ!

[Apog]

how to copy PROCESS and PIPERUN? if i want to copy only PROCESS or PIPERUN information??

[dave]

Peter, what would it take to make a "paint spec" routine?