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    Default Copy to clipboard from Preview?

    DR 7.0.1

    A customer wants to copy an email address from the preview of a report and paste ir somewhere else in a different application.

    Is there any way to do this?

    Thanks in Advanced.

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    Default Re: Copy to clipboard from Preview?

    format the email address in the preview / report as a hyperlink, with a Mailtto:// ?

    or format it as a link that points to an event handler that loads the clipboard.

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    Code:
    format the email address in the preview / report as a hyperlink, with a Mailtto:// 
    How?

    The thing is, the email was just an example.... let me rephrase.... the customer wants to copy to clipboard any part of the report, if he finds a long description of something, he wants to be able to copy it.

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    Interesting. I never realized you can't copy from the previewer. You can't in "that other reporting tool" either.

    I did see that in DR, if you export as html & open the htm doc you can - but that's a lot of steps.
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    Oh, that's a whole 'nother thing.
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    also if you print to PDF and preview that.
    Michael Mullan.
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    Default Re: Copy to clipboard from Preview?

    Not always - it seems some reports get converted to graphics or some such when exported.
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    Boris,

    Pretty much all output can be grabbed via OnPreviewClick. Pretty much because objects on top of eachother won't give this feature.

    Selecting a part of the text is possible by selecting a range of pixels, copy and using OCR to convert to text. I have no experience with this.
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    So, bottom line, my answer to the customer is No.

    Thanks.

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