Duplicating objects

You can duplicate objects of your console by using the Copy and Paste actions. Duplicating objects can save you the time to create a new object of the same type with just slightly different attributes or values, such as a query, for which only one criterion is different.

Any individual object, such as an administrator, a report or an operational rule can be copied, but not folders or groups. Be aware that you can only duplicate objects within their own object type node, that is, you can only duplicate a query with the Queries node, you cannot copy it and place it in the Assigned Queries node of a device group.

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Understanding common objects

Some general and some object specific restrictions apply when objects are duplicated:

  • No assignments, that is, device, device group, query or operational rule, are copied, with the exception of Rollouts , for which the device assignments will be duplicated as well.
  • The Scheduler s of queries, operational rules and reports are duplicated.
  • The security settings of the duplicated object, that is, the settings defined in the object's Security tab will be duplicated.
  • For operational rules the steps and the list of the packages to which they are assigned are duplicated.
  • Regarding reports all their subreports and their respective contents, that is, columns and formats are duplicated, and the defined exports.
  • Rollouts can be duplicated but neither individual pull deployments nor push deployments.
  • If a device is duplicated within the same device group, the same rules as those explained in the preceding paragraph apply. If the device is copied and put into another device group, the name will stay the same, as a device can have several parents.

To duplicate objects

  1. Select the object to be duplicated in the table in the right window pane of its folder or group.
  2. Select Edit > Copy copy.png.
    The selected object was copied into the clipboard.

  3. Select Edit> Pastepaste.png.

    If you duplicate an object several times, the number will be increased with each paste action. For example, the original object is myquery, then it will be duplicated into myquery (1), myquery (2), and so on.

The duplicated object displays in its location with the same name as the original object extended by a number, because the same object cannot exist more than once, except for devices.

 

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