Hi I have a job which is like a template. I want to copy this job, and save it as another name, but I don't see how to do that. Can anyone suggest? Probably staring me in the face.
Tony
Hi I have a job which is like a template. I want to copy this job, and save it as another name, but I don't see how to do that. Can anyone suggest? Probably staring me in the face.
Tony
thanks.
Hopefully there will be a 'save as' in the future?
Hey Tony,
One suggestion you might be interested in - it helps alot...
There are a few core set of action steps that you can save as an exe or as a separate job. The trick is that you can create your own library of sorts which makes it that much easy to build very complex (or simple jobs) just by cutting + pasting those action steps. In other words, you don't have to worry about starting from scratch every time. As an example, you might have a series of actions like this:
download data to excel
analyze it (ex. sort it, remove duplicates, etc)
post it someplace (or upload it)
email someone alerting them to the updated info
See what I mean?
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The way I usually copy jobs is: First, create the new job with the name you want it to have. Second, open the job to be copied, use Ctrl-A to select all the actions, and use Ctrl-C to copy them into the buffer. Finally, switch back to the new job and use Ctrl-V to copy all the actions from the previous job.
If you only need to select a range of actions, you can click on the first action, hold down Shift, and click on the last action. You can also hold down Control and click on an action to add or subtract it from the list of selected actions. (This also works for files in Windows Explorer.)
You could also export the job, rename it in Windows explorer, and import it back with the new name.