This article explains how AggreGate administrators may copy objects between different user accounts using AggreGate Client. Such object cloning may be convenient in many cases:
| • | When you have created some useful objects (e.g. alerts, reports, widgets etc.) under your own account and want to share them with other users without allowing them to modify your original objects; |
| • | When one user wants to use an object created by another user but you don't want to give him permissions to access that object. |
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If you want to give one user permissions to fully access, modify and use some object that belongs to another user without making a copy of that object, see How to give one user access to the objects of another user. |
1. Finding the Container Node
In the System Tree, expand the node for the user account (
) under which a copy will be created. User account nodes are located under the Users node (
). Users node is available only if you have administrative permissions.
Within the user's node, find the container node that holds objects of the same type as the copied object. For example, if you are going to make a copy of a script, find the Scripts node (
).
Here is a screenshot showing how the Queries node for a user called test:
2. Launching Make Copy Action
Right-click the node you found at the previous step and select Make Copy:
In the Entity Selector window, find an object you to copy. Click it, then click OK. For example, if you are making copy of a query (
), expand Users node, then the node of a user who owns the query you want to copy. Finally, expand this user's Queries node (
):
A copy of the selected query will be created under the account of the user selected at step 1:
See Make Copy Action article for more information about object copying.
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Using Drag and Drop for cloning objects Another method to copy an object is to drag an object and drop it on the corresponding container node under another user account. This is faster but may be not convenient in some cases because nodes may be located far one from another in the System Tree and you'll need to scroll the tree while holding the mouse button pressed. |
